A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual ...

Mustafa Al-Bassam is a former member of Anonymous, the global hacktivist collective known for cyberattacks on governments, corporations, and security agencies. Al-Bassam also cofounded LulzSec, a ...

NEW YORK -- The group that claimed responsibility for taking down the BBC's global website last week has said the attack was "just the start." On Saturday, a group calling itself New World Hacking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Activism via hacking efforts in the early 2010s conducted under such banners as Anonymous, AntiSec and LulzSec made "hacktivism" a widely used term. But since 2016, the number of website hacks, ...

The internet was abuzz late Saturday night with speculation that Anonymous — the decentralized hacker collective — had successfully disabled the Minneapolis Police Department website, in retaliation ...

Hacker-activist 'The Jester' also says he attacks jihadist websites. Nov. 30, 2010 -- A computer hacker is claiming he temporarily disabled the Wikileaks site Sunday afternoon, right as the latest ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- After claiming he was "unexpectedly dragged in chains and planes" from a federal prison where he has been doing hard time, suburban Chicago computer hacker Jeremy Hammond now pledges ...

NEW YORK – A self-described anarchist and "hacktivist" from Chicago pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he illegally accessed computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors.

Hacktivist have announced that they're parting ways with their founding guitarist, Timfy James. The UK grime-metallers will be playing a couple of final dates together, including a farewell headline ...