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By Steve Huff 12/10/12 1:15pm

Team GhostShell Finishes The Year With Megahack on Orgs Including NASA and Pentagon Defense Contractor

Team GhostShell published their “last project” Monday, “Project WhiteFox.” The hacking crew again used their signature method of announcing the large-scale hack, hijacking numerous Twitter profiles to link to their Pastebin page and notify tech blogs and writers who have covered them in the past.

On the page linking to data taken as part of Project WhiteFox, Team GhostShell explained some of their actions over the past year or so. They also revealed that “DeadMellox” was a ploy, writing that he “was a ghost to begin with.” Read More

By Steve Huff 11/02/12 12:16pm

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With Project BlackStar, Hacker Group Team GhostShell Declares Cyber-War Against Russia

Hacking group Team GhostShell, which recently hacked records from major universities around the world, has materialized again to announce a declaration of war against Russia. It calls the operation Project BlackStar and claims it already has “access to more russian files than the FSB (Russia’s answer to the CIA).”

Team GhostShell has a novel approach to promoting its ops–it uses mulitple hacked Twitter accounts, posting the same message directed at various tech blogs and writers on each one: Read More

By Steve Huff 10/02/12 10:22am

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Hackers ‘Team GhostShell’ Leak 120,000 Records From 100 Major Universities

Team GhostShell returned late Monday with Project WestWind: a leak of 120,000 records from 100 major universities around the world.

Team GhostShell is the hacking group behind Project Hellfire, which launched in August this year. Project Hellfire lifted 1 million accounts from 100 websites around the world, compromising data from the CIA and from Wall Street.

The hacked data leaked in Project WestWind does indeed appear to come from a who’s who of major learning institutions. They include Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Tokyo University, Cornell and New York University.

In their Pastebin announcement, Team GhostShell said Project WestWind was a serious effort to jump-start a dialogue on the state of higher education today. Apparently this hack wasn’t pranksterism for the lulz, but hacktivism for the greater good: Read More

By Steve Huff 8/28/12 2:21pm

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Hackers Strike Back: Team GhostShell Claims Massive Data Leak of CIA, Wall Street Info

This weekend, a group of hackers claiming solidarity with Anonymous performed a huge data dump of 1 million records. Speaking for Team GhostShell, black hat hacker DeadMellox evoked a metal vibe, writing, “All aboard the Smoke & Flames Train,” before listing targets of the dump. Read More

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Team GhostShell Finishes The Year With Megahack on Orgs Including NASA and Pentagon Defense Contractor

With Project BlackStar, Hacker Group Team GhostShell Declares Cyber-War Against Russia

Hackers ‘Team GhostShell’ Leak 120,000 Records From 100 Major Universities

Hackers Strike Back: Team GhostShell Claims Massive Data Leak of CIA, Wall Street Info

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