The orchestrated effort involved hacktivist collectives from diverse nations and employed a variety of techniques, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, defacement assaults, and takeovers of user accounts
How much of a risk do hacktivists pose? Hacktivism's heyday was arguably a decade ago. While activists do keep using chaotic online attacks to loudly promote their cause, they're tough to distinguish from fake operations run by governments, including Russia and Iran.
While self-proclaimed Russian hacktivist groups such as KillNet, Tesla Botnet and Anonymous Russia claim they're wreaking havoc on anti-Moscow targets, a fresh analysis of their attacks finds that despite rampant self-promotion, their real-world cybersecurity impact is typically negligible.
Several U.S. government agencies fell victim to what was described as a "global cyberattack" on Thursday following a warning from a pro-Russian "hacktivist" organization that [.]
The Russian government continues to use an array of phishing attacks and information operations - including hack-and-leak efforts and running hacktivist groups such