Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Many of us vaguely remember the word “hacktivism” from a decade ago. This was a time before serious ransomware attacks dominated current cybersecurity concerns, when certain hacking techniques were ...

Hacktivism surged back into mainstream consciousness with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Less than two years later, politically-motivated groups and individuals were out in force again ...

The Spanish authorities have arrested three individuals for using DDoSia, a distributed denial of service platform operated by pro-Russian hacktivists, to conduct DDoS attacks against governments and ...

A report by Israel-based Gambit Security dismisses the hackers’ claims of being patriotic but unaffiliated activists.

The cyber-world is witnessing a remarkable surge in DDoS attacks orchestrated by hacktivists. The scope of these attacks is broad and indiscriminate - they target everyone, from large-scale businesses ...

A self-described hacktivist group is claiming today to have hacked Walt Disney Co.’s Slack account and released more than 1.1 terabytes of stolen data from the account. The group calls itself ...

A hacktivist group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) has rocked the Iranian establishment in recent months by leaking videos and confidential documents that appear to show the systematic ...

The Justice Department has charged a Swiss hacker with computer intrusion and identity theft, just over a week after the hacker took credit for helping to break into the online systems of a U.S.