Researchers Uncover Brazilian Hacktivist's Identity Who Defaced Over 4800 Sites

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Researchers Uncover Brazilian Hacktivist's Identity Who Defaced Over 4800 Sites
May 28, 2020
https://thehackernews.com/2020/05/brazilian-hacker-vandathegod.html

It's one thing for hackers to target websites and proudly announce it on social media platforms for all to see. It's, however, an entirely different thing to leave a digital trail that leads cybersecurity researchers right to their doorsteps.
That's exactly what happened in the case of a hacktivist under the name of VandaTheGod, who has been attributed to a series of attacks on government websites since July 2019.

In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers from Check Point said they were able to map VandaTheGod's activity over the years, and eventually zero down the attacker's real identity to a Brazilian individual from the city of Uberlândia.
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A Long Social Media Trail
VandaTheGod has a long history of going after government websites, universities, and healthcare providers. Notably, the attacker claimed to have breached the database of New Zealand's Tū Ora Compass Health and offered medical details of one million patients for sale on Twitter last October.

The hacker in question, allegedly part of the "Brazilian Cyber Army" (BCA), has also vandalized dozens of websites to spread anti-government messages, in addition to displaying BCA's logo in screenshots of compromised accounts and websites.
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According to Zone-H records, a security portal that holds an archive of all web intrusions, there are currently 4,820 entries of hacked websites linked to VandaTheGod, most of which belongs to individuals and entities in the United States, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, South Africa, Canada, UK, and Germany.
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Check Point Research: Bringing VandaTheGod down to Earth: Exposing the person behind a 7-year hacktivism campaign

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