Hacktivists

California Man Will Plead Guilty to Last Year’s Disney Hack
A 25-year-old California man will plead guilty to hacking into a Disney's personal computer and using stolen credentials to break into thousands of Disney Slack channels. Ryan Mitchell Kramer, who claimed to ...
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FunkSec: A New Ransomware Group Buoyed by AI
A new ransomware group called FunkSec claimed 85 victims in December but its members appear to be lesser-skilled hackers using generative AI and inflated attack numbers to bolster their capabilities and reputation, ...
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Disney 1.2 TB Slack Hack: NullBulge Claims Leak is its Own
Richi Jennings | | Disney, hacktivism, Hacktivist, Hacktivists, hacktivity, NullBulge, SB Blogwatch, slack, Slack breach
Steamboat bloat: Hacktivist group wields infostealer Trojan, leaks 1,200 GB of mouse droppings ...
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Exploring Killnet’s Social Circles
It is not common for analysts to have the opportunity to study the social circles of criminal organizations, but occasionally a group emerges that is more transparent than others. Examining a criminal ...
Pro-Kremlin Hacktivist Groups Seeking Impact By Courting Notoriety
Flashpoint Team | | cyber threat intelligence, cybercrime, hacktivism, Hacktivists, Illicit communities, killnet, Threat Intelligence
Newfound relationships between pro-Kremlin hacktivist groups and the Russian government go beyond helping Russia with their own propaganda operations, also alluding to behind-the-scenes coordination between the government and these hacktivist groups that ...

Hacktivists in the DUMPS in Solidarity With Ukraine
Pro-Ukrainian hackers are a little down in the DUMPS these days—the DUMPS cybercriminal forum, that is, which encourages cyberattacks against Russia and Belarus. “Information services, leaks or other services on our forum ...
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The Russia-Ukraine crisis shakes up the cybercriminal ecosystem
Blueliv Labs | | Blog, Cyber Threats, geopolitics, hacktivism, Hacktivists, nation-state, research, threat actors, Threat Intelligence
Table of Contents Introduction Russian Side UNC1151/Ghostwriter/TA445 The Red Bandits Conti Team Ukrainian side IT Army of Ukraine Anonymous Belarusian Cyber Partisans AgainstTheWest (ATW) Network Battalion 65′ (NB65) Underground forums position Raidforums ...

Analysis of the Top10 Hacktivist Operations
Key Points The most relevant hacktivist operations in the last 12 months were: #OpIceIsis, #OpChile, #OpChildSafety, #OpKillingBay and #OpBeast. The operation #OpGeorgeFloyd, born after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis ...