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Check Point Unmasks Hacktivist Who Defaced Nearly 5000 Sites:
Security researchers are claiming victory after unmasking an infamous hacktivist who defaced nearly 5000 websites in more than 40 countries over the past few years.
The individual, known online as “VandaTheGod” on Twitter, took to social media to publicize his exploits, sometimes under aliases such as “Vanda de Assis” and “SH1N1NG4M3,” according to Check Point.
This activity first alerted the security firm to his presence, and also provided a trail of clues which ultimately led them to his real identity: an individual living in the south-eastern Brazilian municipality of Uberlandia.
Active since 2013, the hacktivist never reached his stated personal goal of compromising over 5000 websites. However, thousands of government, academic and corporate sites were apparently defaced with anti-government and social justice messages thanks to his work.
In the last year, over half (57%) were located in the US — where victims included the official website of the state of Rhode Island and the city of Philadelphia — while Australia and the Netherlands rounded out the top three targeted countries.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by meustrus on Monday June 01 2020, @10:23PM (2 children)
What's your point? That London was in on the whole thing? Is it somehow not the "official explanation" that the European and American financial establishment schemed to profit as much as possible from post-WWI Germany? Or is there something wrong with that explanation in your view?
There's a thing about the "official explanation": millions of people, many of them smarter and more determined than I, have had decades to analyze them and pick them apart.
Meanwhile, you're keeping to yourself the details of whatever crackpot conspiracy theory is rattling inside your head. Where nobody can check its factual or logical consistency. Does it make you feel smugly superior to the rest of us that you've figured out the grand conspiracy?
If I'm to guess this is one of those "new world order" conspiracy theories, the perpetrator(s) would need an impossible combination of superhuman intelligence, animalistic concern for the material world, pathological disregard for human life, megalomaniacal ambition, god-like humility, and lottery-winning luck to conceive of such a plan, impose it upon the world, plow through millions of innocent (and productive) human lives, set themselves up to benefit most, keep completely silent about their magnificent scheme, and accurately predict and prevent every irrational decision-maker involved from screwing it up.
The ruling forces of this world aren't that smart, and they're not that stupid. But I'm curious. If your conspiracy theory isn't that "the Jews" faked their own genocide to take control of the world, then what could it possibly be?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2020, @01:33AM (1 child)
You seem upset.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday June 10 2020, @04:48PM
It upsets me when people piss on the graves of those who died for the sake of freedom. Memorial Day was only a couple of weeks ago.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?