“We informed you that the scope.com website was a victim on Friday of a cyber attack under the defament modality, perpetrated by the group @gov.eth, a renowned hackivist who attacked June 12 to The Digital Union of Catamarca and before profile.com and Argentina.gob.ar, among other sites, media and social media accounts, ”he said Guillermo Gammacurta, Director of financial scope, in an official media statement through the WhatsApp app.
In the written letter, Gammacurta clarified: “The attack, which occurred from 8.30 on Friday and deeply altered our contents, included the image of a skull with various hashtags with a political message. In this modality of attack the hacker accessed users and passwords to enter the content administrator. Our technical teams worked hard to identify the users committed to perpetrated The contents and restore the site.
Finally, the director of the journalistic media concluded: “We apologize to our readers and advertisers for any inconvenience that this may have caused. We appreciate their understanding and support at this time and we commit ourselves to continue providing them with the high quality information they deserve.”
During Friday morning, users and readers met a skull on the main screen with policy slogans against the former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, among them several hashtags that referred to their recent conviction. The titles were signed by the Group, known in the country for attacking official systems, after violating portals of Renaper, the Mi Argentina platform and the Chamber of Deputies of San Juan: «Hacked by@GOV-ETH#cfkpresa#cfkchorra joit.me/elhackerMesfamoso”, appeared on the site. The attack lasted several hours and for the moment, the page seems to work normally.
The antecedent
Profile.com around 8:30 in the morning of Tuesday, April 8, suffered the attack of a digital intruder that entered the media publication systems. The “hacker” uploaded a photo of the president’s ID Javier Milei apparently from Federal Police Communications Systemwhich would have downloaded on April 5 at 2:18 p.m. using a generic user, Sifcop. Then, the attacker modified the title of several notes with the heading “Hacked by @gov.eth”, in addition to leaving aggressive messages against Jews and the president himself, whom he nicknamed “Jewlei”, that is “the Jew Milei.”
In that episode, the hacker @gov.eth assumed the responsibility of the attack, suggested that Clarín or another medium could be among his next victims, and defined himself as “National Socialist”. The modality used by the criminal is called “Defacement Attack” and consists of taking advantage of digital vulnerabilities to take control of a website and then modify its content and/or code to send a message, often politicians, in addition to taking advantage of offsembled users.
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