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The RipperSec hacking group has announced a cyber attack on a University of NSW website, continuing its ongoing campaign against Australia and a number of other nations.
In a post on Telegram yesterday (Monday, 13 January 13), RipperSec announced it launched a cyber attack on the website of the UNSW School of Physics.
The group did not specify the specifics of the incident, and Cyber Daily has observed the website appears fully operational at the time of writing.
RipperSec claimed the incident as part of Operation Freedom, in which, it said, it is targeting organisations as part of a “stand for justice and [a] fight for freedom”.
The group said its justification for targeting Australian organisations is because the nation supports Israel and gives them money and weapons. The Greens political party last year demanded that the government halt exports of weapons to Israel, something the government denied doing, calling the statement misinformation.
The latest incident follows a number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Australian organisations by a number of threat groups that appear to have joined forces.
Late last year, Cyber Daily observed a number of websites defaced by the DXPLOIT threat group. In their defacement message, the group named a number of other threat actors in hashtags, including NoName057(16), RipperSec, Anonymous Guys, and Al Ahad.
In December, Anonymous Guys announced it was forming a new hacktivist alliance with Al Ahad and DXPLOIT.
According to FalconFeeds.io, the groups have increased their activity on organisations from a number of countries, including Australia.
Additionally, in November, FalconFeeds.io also noted that DXPLOIT was “collaborating” with RipperSec to form “OpsAustralia” to launch attacks on Australian organisations.
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