Anonymous hacks CCP-run website; warns China to not do 'anything stupid against Taiwan'

Cyber hacking group ‘Anymous’ has recently hacked a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) website, furr warning Beijing t to attempt "anything stupid against Taiwan." In midst of Russia's attack on Ukraine, Anymous stated that it is taking a break from cyberwar on Russia, Taiwan News reported. Furr, group has claimed to hack website of ‘Chengdu Pidu District Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference’ on Monday, May 2. 

Anymous, on a newly produced HTML p on website, added ir logo, along with a photograph of a person wearing a black hoodie and a 'Guy Fawkes' mask. In addition to this, meme "Taiwan Numbah Wan!" emerges on p, which is a reference to a famous phrase made by video game streamer "AngryPug" in 2015 during a battle in computer game "H1Z1" to any Chinese streamer "Em0", Taiwan News reported. Furr, Taiwan's flag is shown underneath statement, accompanied by its national emblem. 

group claimed to take a "short break" from its cyberattacks on Russia

group n claimed to be taking a "short break" from its cyberattacks on Russia in order to "remind China to t try anything stupid against Taiwan." It also highlighted that it has conducted several attacks against Russian government and its state-run media websites, industrial control systems, as well as hundreds of surveillance cameras since war commenced. 

Anymous also ted that a "souvenir" was left by an Anymous member "Cyber Anakin" for China after a five-day breach into Chinese computer networks, particularly nuclear power plant interfaces, Taiwan News reported.  

Meanwhile, defaced CCP website shortly went offline, and as of publication, website is still unusable. Internet Archive Wayback Machine has an archived form of defacement, Taiwan News reported. 

Anymous exposed personal information of 120,000 Russian troops

Apart from this, on April 3, cyber collective 'Anymous' claimed credit for exposing personal information of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine. information, according to media reports, was released in March and contained names, dates of birth, residences, unit affiliations, and passport numbers. "All soldiers participating in invasion of Ukraine should be subjected to a war crime tribunal," said 'Anymous' in a tweet. 

It is worth ting that leak of 120,000 Russian troops' personal information had also surfaced in Ukraine's Pravda on March 1, just a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a "special" military operation in Ukraine. Ukrainian publication, on or hand, did t specify when information was obtained, just saying that "Centre for Defence Strategies acquired this information from reliable sources", as per media reports. 

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