Ukrainian Hackers and Intel Officers Partner Up In Apparent Hack of a Top Russian Bank (npr.org) 41
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Two Ukrainian hacktivist groups are claiming to have broken into Russia's largest private bank, Alfa-Bank. In a blog post last week, the hackers from groups called KibOrg and NLB shared screenshots of what appears to be an internal database belonging to Alfa-Bank, as well as personal details of several Russian individuals as "confirmation" of the breach. Within the database, the hackers say there are over 30 million records including names, birthdates, account numbers and phone numbers of Russian customers.
Adding some legitimacy to those claims, a Ukrainian intelligence official who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation confirmed to NPR that Ukraine's top counterintelligence agency, the SBU, helped the hacktivists breach Alfa-Bank. The official did not share additional details about how the SBU participated or any further plans for sharing the stolen data. Ukrainian journalists including from cybersecurity website The Record previously reported on the connection to the SBU. While the hacktivists did not immediately respond to a request to discuss the breach, they wrote in the blog post -- posted on their own site -- that they would be sharing the data obtained from Alfa-Bank with investigative journalists. Alfa-Bank has not publicly responded to the news of the hack.
Adding some legitimacy to those claims, a Ukrainian intelligence official who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation confirmed to NPR that Ukraine's top counterintelligence agency, the SBU, helped the hacktivists breach Alfa-Bank. The official did not share additional details about how the SBU participated or any further plans for sharing the stolen data. Ukrainian journalists including from cybersecurity website The Record previously reported on the connection to the SBU. While the hacktivists did not immediately respond to a request to discuss the breach, they wrote in the blog post -- posted on their own site -- that they would be sharing the data obtained from Alfa-Bank with investigative journalists. Alfa-Bank has not publicly responded to the news of the hack.
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Nah just send them Greta Thunberg.
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Informative)
the same way Russian's "deserve getting hacked".
When you're raping girls as young as 4 years old [businessinsider.com], raping pregnant girls, and women up to 83 years of age [yahoo.com], yes, you do deserved to be whacked.
When you tie the hands of civilians [aljazeera.com] and murder them in the streets, leaving the bodies to lie for days [bbc.com], yes, you deserve to be whacked.
When you set up toruture chambers [bbc.com] and use them against civilians [bbc.co.uk] or anyone else, yes, you should be whacked.
When you deliberately target maternity hospitals [cnn.com] or a theater which is clearly marked as sheltering civilians [bbc.com], yes, you deserve to be whacked.
When you deliberately kidnap thousands of children [rferl.org] and deport them from their home country in an effort to commit genocide, yes, you should be whacked.
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The rape of Belgium by the Germans was substantially true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
In fact, Belgium is still suffering economically from the damage caused by the Germans stealing industrial machinery from factories in WWI.
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Let me guess, if you are American, you're a Democrat? Still thinking Putin elected Trump?
If you are European, yours is just normal hostility towards other nationalities, in which case, carry on.
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Look at the giant pair on this guy, posting his Kremlin propaganda as AC!
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posting his Kremlin propaganda as AC!
Can you explain which part is Kremlin propaganda? "Isn't hacking banks illegal? I guess gassing Jews is also OK because they're "sub human" the same way Russian's "deserve getting hacked". Welcome to 2023."
As for Ukrainians, what they don't seem to want to acknowledge is that the West thinks of them the same as they think of the Russians -- filthy Slavs, of Orthodox faith to boot -- except they are useful for the moment.
AMD, Apple, Qualcomm competition (Score:5, Funny)
Intel moves to further diversify its activities.
Re:AMD, Apple, Qualcomm competition (Score:5, Funny)
Intel moves to further diversify its activities.
Their quarterly results were pretty bad, so I guess they've started hacking banks.
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It's interesting the way the Russian propaganda trolls always attack "the Liberals". I wonder why that is?
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beg to disagree, i have questioned and rebuked the western narrative many times, have been called putin lover and russian shill and whatnot, and i couldn't care less about libtards or demtards. as far as foreign policy is concerned they are the same thing, tweedledee and tweedledum. but more than that, common sense is just common sense, has nothing to do with your domestic polarization.
fun fact, trump was actually different. i assume that as a loose cannon he didn't have the connections to any of the regula
Re: State sponsored cracking - bad (Score:1)
Stingray drones? (Score:1)
Are there IMSE-catcher drones yet?
Maybe they needed the cell numbers of certain targets?
I sure hope they don't terrorize citizens or assassinate journalists again.
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Not the microchip company (Score:1)
Plain bank robbery (Score:2)
De-escalation deal? (Score:2)
There was a recent deal to de-escalate cyber attacks on civilian targets from the both side. At least from a couple of large hacking groups on both sides.
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn... [bbc.com]
Wonder if any of those groups are involved, or if the attacks are going to escalate again / never de-escalated even after the deal.
Even if the groups which signed up for that are not involved, it may still piss off enough people to make it a free for all again on civilian targets.