Anonymous and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Anonymous, a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective, has conducted numerous cyber-operations against Russia since February 2022 when the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Prelude Starting from late 2021, Anonymous took notice of the military build-up near the Russia-Ukraine border and thus acted to propagate peace plans to end the war in Donbas by defacing various websites, such as United Nations' Networks on Migration, Polar Research Institute of China, Convention on Biological Diversity, and various government websites in China.In the hacking campaign named "Operation Samantha Smith", which is a reference to the 1980s child peace activist, they called for a referendum in Ukraine on whether to presumably follow the now-defunct Minsk Protocol or hand over the separatist-controlled territories to a UN peacekeeping administration. Later, a second referendum in the separatist regions would then ask voters...

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal concerns the copy protection measures included by Sony BMG on compact discs in 2005. When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software that provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits, even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits. Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits...

Zatrzymani do sprawy ataków DDoS w ramach kolejnej edycji międzynarodowej operacji „Power Off”

Policjanci Wydziału w Bydgoszczy Centralnego Biura Zwalczania Cyberprzestępczości, we współpracy z Prokuraturą Okręgową w Bydgoszczy zatrzymali 2 osoby zajmujące się wytwarzaniem i udostępnianiem płatnej usługi do przeprowadzania ataków DDoS, czyli tzw. usługi DDoS as a Service. Korzystanie z usługi możliwe było po dokonaniu opłaty w kryptowalucie, co pozwalało na przeprowadzanie cyberataków, które w istotny sposób zakłócały pracę systemów informatycznych ulokowanych na terenie całego świata. Sprawa jest rozwojowa, nie wykluczone są dalsze zatrzymania.