Miho will return: in Georgia, hackers used Saakashvili for a large-scale attack

The websites of Georgian state institutions and TV channels were subjected to a large-scale hacker attack. She touched upon more than two thousand resources, including the websites of non-governmental organizations and private companies. Writes about this BBC. In many cases, the home pages of the websites were replaced with the image of the former President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili ...

In the US, extradited Russian hacker who hacked into American companies

According to the US Secret Service, as a result of a joint mission with the FBI and the United States Prosecutor's Office, 35-year-old Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin, a resident of Moscow, was extradited from Georgia, where he was previously arrested by the country's authorities at the request of the US authorities. Tyurin is accused of ...

A retaliatory strike: an American hacker hacked the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry

Американский телеканал CNN сообщил, что американский хакер, известный как Jester («Шут»), взломал сайт российского МИДа. В разговоре с журналистами хакер объяснил свои действия желанием ответить на взломы американских сайтов, ответственность за которые власти США возлагают на Россию. «Я хотел ткнуть им…

Ukrainian hacker can sit down in the US on 30 years

31-year-old Ukrainian Evgeny Levitsky, also known by the hacker pseudonym MURDERER, was extradited from the Czech Republic to Atlanta last week. The US authorities have charged Levitsky with conspiracy to commit banking and electronic fraud. The hacker faces up to 30 years in prison. IN…

In the Russian Central Election Commission accused American hackers in the attack

The head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov announced an attempt to hack the CEC website from the United States on the eve of a single voting day on September 13. “Yesterday, at 23:23 Moscow time, someone tried to hack our site and replace the content of its data with an intensity of 50 thousand requests per minute. ...

Accounts of 390 thousands more taxpayers could crack

As a result of the hacking of the website of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), hackers could gain access to the information of more than 300 American taxpayers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing the US tax office. Earlier it was reported about the possible access to information of 100 thousand American taxpayers. IN…

Russian hackers accused of hacking into White House computers via Twitter

Researchers at the American information security company FireEye said that Russian hackers hacked into White House computers using the microblogging service Twitter. Reported by Reuters. The American firm believes that the hackers created the malicious Hammertoss code, which was distributed via the popular social network. Special algorithm ...

Israeli hacker who trades in Madonna’s songs, imprisoned

39-year-old hacker Edi Leserman, who hacked Madonna's computer and sold her songs on the Internet before the release of the new album, was sentenced to 14 months in prison. He will also have to pay a fine of about 4 thousand dollars. The investigation materials also say ...

Russian hackers are suspected of attacking the French TV channel TV5

French police claim that the cyberattack on the international channel TV5 Monde, for which supporters of the radical Islamic State group claimed responsibility, was actually carried out by hackers from Russia. The Internet resources of TV5 Monde were hacked on the evening of April 8. As a result, the broadcast...

In the US, hackers stole 104 personal data of thousands of taxpayers

  The Internal Revenue Service announced that hackers managed to break into the system and gain access to the tax returns of 104 Americans. According to The Washington Post, criminals were able to gain access to data using the Get Transcript online system, having managed to bypass the multi-level identification procedure. ...

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