Hungarian websites suffered defacing, political cyber-attacks!

With the launch of the Russian military campaign against Ukraine, many experts believed that a large portion of the attacks would be waged online, attacking Europe and shutting down important internet-connected infrastructures and other aspects of societies.

Cyber-apocalypse

Although the situation is not as grim as many experts believed, or in other words, the long-theorised “cyber-Armageddon” has not been launched yet, the number of cyber-attacks and hacking attempts had gone up significantly, Forbes reports.

It was expected, since the well-known hacker group, Anonymous has announced at the beginning of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine that they would attack Russia and seize sensitive information.

Anonymous has kept its promise and managed to break into many important Russian establishments. The hacker group proudly proclaimed their successful attacks and made compromising information available to the public.

Hacking Hungary

As Syspeace reported, the overall number of automated hacking attempts has decreased by 15% in the world, yet the number of these attempts has significantly grown in Hungary.

“The sum total of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Hungary built up throughout the previous 14-day period. According to evidence from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers, there was an escalation of 34 percent in automated hacking attempts per server,” – they said.

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On Monday, a relatively serious hacker attack was carried out successfully ‘defacing’ several Hungarian websites. Reports say that while some of them were pro-government news outlets, others were innocent bystanders which have happened to be accessible to the attackers.