Topic: hacktivist groups
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Pro-Russia Hackers Target Water Utility in Honeypot Sting
A Russia-aligned hacktivist group called TwoNet was tricked into attacking a decoy water treatment facility, revealing their shift from website disruptions to targeting industrial infrastructure. The group used default credentials to access the system, performed disruptive actions like deleting c...
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Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Surge Against Government Sites
Hacktivist-driven DDoS attacks were the most frequent cybersecurity incidents in the public sector, accounting for 60% of cases, though they were not the most damaging. Data breaches and ransomware, often by cybercriminals and state actors, caused more severe impacts, targeting sensitive services...
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EU Cyberattacks Increasingly Target Critical Infrastructure
The ENISA Threat Landscape 2025 report reveals a significant increase in cyberattacks targeting operational technology systems, which now account for 18.2% of all documented threats, driven by their growing interconnectedness and deliberate targeting by malicious actors. Pro-Russian hacker groups...
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Denmark Accuses Russia of Cyberattack on Water Supply
Danish intelligence has formally attributed cyberattacks on critical infrastructure to the Russian state, identifying groups Z-Pentest and NoName057(16) as instruments of a hybrid warfare campaign against Western nations. The attacks, including a destructive strike on a water utility and disrupti...
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US Critical Infrastructure Hit by Pro-Russia Cyberattacks
Pro-Russia hacktivist groups are exploiting weak security to breach U.S. critical infrastructure, causing real disruptions in sectors like water and energy, as detailed in a joint advisory from CISA, the FBI, and the NSA. These loosely organized groups, such as Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, use ba...
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CISA orders federal patch for exploited TrueConf Server bugs
CISA has added two actively exploited TrueConf Server vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-72529 and CVE-2026-72530) to its KEV catalog, mandating that U.S. federal agencies patch them by September 3, 2026. The critical flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution: one via a missing authentication issu...
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Olympics Cyber Threats: Phishing and Spoofed Sites Still Top Risks
Cybersecurity experts warn that phishing attacks and spoofed websites remain the primary digital threats for the 2026 Winter Games, attracting a wide range of malicious actors due to the event's global scale and high incentive for disruption. Historical analysis shows past Olympic events faced si...
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