A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
Root gave the talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October.
Read more…
Source: TechCrunch News
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- -=TWELVE=- is back
September 20, 2024
In the spring of 2024, posts with real people’s personal data began appearing on the -=TWELVE=- Telegram channel. Soon it was blocked for falling foul of the Telegram terms of service. The group stayed off the radar for several months, but as Kaspersky researchers investigated a late June 2024 attack, they found that it employed techniques ...
- Major data breach impacts Australian hardware store
September 19, 2024
About 40,000 customers of a major hardware chain have had their data leaked by hackers, including credit card details, mobile numbers and email addresses. Total Tools has fallen victim to a cyber attack which was first identified earlier this week. Total Tools chief executive Richard Murray said on Thursday they were confident the cause of the ...
- Identifying Rogue AI
September 19, 2024
For many – certainly given the share price of some leading proponents – the hype of AI is starting to fade. But that may be about to change with the dawn of agentic AI. It promises to get humanity far closer to the ideal of AI as an autonomous technology capable of goal-oriented problem solving. But ...
- Zooming in on CVE‑2024‑7965
September 19, 2024
On August 21, Google released an update for Chrome, fixing a total of 37 security flaws. Researchers across the globe paid their attention to the CVE‑2024‑7965 vulnerability described as an inappropriate implementation in the browser’s V8 engine. The vulnerability can lead to remote code execution (RCE) in the Chrome renderer and thus become a starting point ...
- Cyber attack on city of Wichita limited to police records, internal investigation finds
September 19, 2024
A ransomware attack that crippled the city of Wichita’s network for more than a month starting in May was limited to a Wichita Police Department records system, city officials said Wednesday. That means the Russian hacker group — LockBit — that claimed credit for the attack did not access bank card numbers, social security numbers or ...
- Hacker claims to have for sale 87 million strong database after suspected Temu breach
September 18, 2024
A cybercriminal claims to have breached Temu and stolen millions of customer records, but the ecommerce giant is vehemently denying the claims. A hacker with the alias ‘smokinthashit’ took to BreachForums, one of the most popular underground forums out there, and advertised a new database, allegedly stolen from the company. “Temu company database for sale. +87M ...