Almost each day of this past week we saw headlines which read “Google was defaced.” Google wasn’t actually defaced, but some hacker groups managed to breach various DNS servers and made it look like Google websites had been defaced.
Iranian hackers defaced YouTube, Intel, Gmail and Google Turkmenistan. Then, Pakistani hackers from the PAKbugs collective made it look like Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena were hacked.
Cyber News reports that some high-profile sites from Uganda might have had the same fate.
Extortionist hackers from the Rex Mundi collective are back. After they unsuccessfully tried to blackmail Drake International, now they’ve set sights on Belgian financial institutions Buy Way.
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