Government Websites Hacked

Taiwanese government websites, including the website of Taiwan's presidential office, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, ahead of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrival in Tapei. According to researchers, these attacks were likely launched by Chinese "hacktivists". 

The Thane city police commissionerate's website was allegedly hacked on Tuesday, with a message appearing on it apparently directed towards the Indian government and demanding an apology to "Muslims all over the world".

Italy's government is poised to curb the use of Russian antivirus software in the public sector in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fearing Moscow could hijack the programs to hack key websites, officials said.

Efforts to disrupt the operations of company websites in Russia have jumped in March, a cybersecurity firm said, with the number of distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks already exceeding those for the whole of February.

A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator said.

Ukraine said Sunday it had evidence that Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that knocked out key government websites this past week, as Microsoft warned the hack could be far worse than first thought.

Hackers temporarily shut down dozens of Ukrainian government websites, causing no major damage but adding to simmering tensions while Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine said Friday it had uncovered clues Russia could have been behind a cyber attack that knocked out government websites in Kyiv at a time of mounting tensions between both neighbours.

A number of government websites in Ukraine were down on Friday after a huge hacking attack, Ukrainian officials said.

Delhi Police on Friday arrested two Kashmiri students from Punjab who were involved in hacking over 500 Indian websites, including those of the government, police said.

The tainted version of Browsealoud caused inserted software for mining the digital currency Monero to run on computers that visited infected sites.

The Department of Administrative Services says affected websites were restored by Monday.

A message posted on the website of Governor John Kasich said, "You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries."

The site, like all government websites, is maintained by the National Informatics Commission (NIC).

The website of the Ministry of Home Affairs was reportedly hacked today, prompting authorities to temporarily block it, an official told news agency Press Trust of India. The Home Ministry website was immediately blocked by the National Informatics Centre after an attempted hack was noticed. Computer emergency response teams are looking into the in...

Taiwanese government websites, including the website of Taiwan's presidential office, was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, ahead of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's arrival in Tapei. According to researchers, these attacks were likely launched by Chinese "hacktivists". 

The Thane city police commissionerate's website was allegedly hacked on Tuesday, with a message appearing on it apparently directed towards the Indian government and demanding an apology to "Muslims all over the world".

Italy's government is poised to curb the use of Russian antivirus software in the public sector in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fearing Moscow could hijack the programs to hack key websites, officials said.

Efforts to disrupt the operations of company websites in Russia have jumped in March, a cybersecurity firm said, with the number of distributed denials of service (DDoS) attacks already exceeding those for the whole of February.

A Ukrainian cyber guerrilla warfare group plans to launch digital sabotage attacks against critical Russian infrastructure such as railways and the electricity grid, to strike back at Moscow over its invasion, a hacker team coordinator said.

Ukraine said Sunday it had evidence that Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that knocked out key government websites this past week, as Microsoft warned the hack could be far worse than first thought.

Hackers temporarily shut down dozens of Ukrainian government websites, causing no major damage but adding to simmering tensions while Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine said Friday it had uncovered clues Russia could have been behind a cyber attack that knocked out government websites in Kyiv at a time of mounting tensions between both neighbours.

A number of government websites in Ukraine were down on Friday after a huge hacking attack, Ukrainian officials said.

Delhi Police on Friday arrested two Kashmiri students from Punjab who were involved in hacking over 500 Indian websites, including those of the government, police said.

The tainted version of Browsealoud caused inserted software for mining the digital currency Monero to run on computers that visited infected sites.

The Department of Administrative Services says affected websites were restored by Monday.

A message posted on the website of Governor John Kasich said, "You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries."

The site, like all government websites, is maintained by the National Informatics Commission (NIC).

The website of the Ministry of Home Affairs was reportedly hacked today, prompting authorities to temporarily block it, an official told news agency Press Trust of India. The Home Ministry website was immediately blocked by the National Informatics Centre after an attempted hack was noticed. Computer emergency response teams are looking into the in...