Tag: hackers

• Tuesday, March 18th 2025 - 08:33 UTC

  Uruguayan civil aviation watchdog website hacked

  

  Hackers from Argentina, identified as LaPampaLeaks, BogotaLeaks, and Uruguayo 1337, Monday hit the website of Uruguay’s National Directorate of Civil Aviation and Aeronautical Infrastructure (DINACIA). Using DNS poisoning, they defaced the site, exposing private data of President Yamandú Orsi, such as his phone number and records, as well as those of Agency for Electronic Government and Knowledge Society (Agencia del Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad del Conocimiento - Agesic) Security Director Mauricio Papaleo.

• Thursday, August 15th 2024 - 10:28 UTC

  Iranian hackers target Trump and Harris' camps

  

  The Iranian State-backed hacking group APT42 has been targeting the campaign headquarters of the two main political parties in the United States, Google said.

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  JBS paid hackers US$ 11 million; cyber extortion crime netted US$ 18 billion in 2020

  

  Brazilian corporation JBS, the world's biggest meat processors, paid a US$11 million bitcoin ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:12 UTC

  UN officials do not use WhatsApp: “it's not supported by a secure mechanism”

  

  United Nations officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because “it's not supported as a secure mechanism,” a UN spokesman said on Thursday, after UN experts accused Saudi Arabia of using the online communications platform to hack the phone of Amazon chief executive and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:04 UTC

  Microsoft takes down 50 domains used by North Korean hacking groups

  

  Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro and Economy minister cell phones hacked: four suspects arrested

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's cell phones were allegedly targeted by a group of hackers who are also accused of breaching the devices of the investigators in a massive corruption probe, the justice ministry said on Thursday.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

  Four people arrested in Brazil for hacking ministers and judges' phones

  

  Brazil's federal police arrested four people for allegedly hacking the phone of Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, a key member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet who had previously been a renowned anti-corruption judge.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  Hackers warn voting machines in the US pose security “serious risks”

  

  Voting machines pose “serious risks” to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US states, carries a cybersecurity flaw that was reported over a decade ago, the hackers claim.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 04:39 UTC

  British Airways: Hackers access details of 380,000 passengers

  

  UK media are reporting the information includes credit card details, residential addresses and email details but the airline said the hackers had not accessed itineraries or passport details.

• Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 08:58 UTC

  Don't trust computers, important stuff write it and have it delivered by courier, recommends Trump

  

  President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the US election, said that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “Tuesday or Wednesday.” He also underlined that no computer is safe and recommended sending important information the old fashion way, write it out and have it delivered by courier.