Global billboards hacked to display explicit content
A hacking group claims responsibility for compromising LED billboards in multiple countries.
The Brief
- LED billboards in Egypt, Malaysia, Brazil, and possibly Iraq and China were hacked.
- The group Leakers$ claimed responsibility for the attack.
- Participants used pseudonyms to identify vulnerable systems through an automated scan.
LED billboards in Egypt, Malaysia, Brazil, and possibly Iraq and China were hacked to display sexually explicit material.
Leakers$, a hacking group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that 'anyone with two brain cells' could have done it.
According to Gizmodo, participants using the pseudonyms Never, 19ylegal, CH, and Nivex identified thousands of exposed systems through an automated random scan lasting about two hours.
The systems were allegedly accessible via web pages and interfaces that lacked basic security protections, according to the report.
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