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Defacement is a cyberattack where an attacker gains unauthorized access to a website and alters its visible content, often replacing original pages with messages, images, or propaganda. This attack targets vulnerabilities in web servers, content management systems, or web applications to modify web pages without permission.
Defacement poses risks beyond visual disruption: it can damage an organization’s reputation, erode user trust, and sometimes mask deeper intrusions like data theft. Defending against defacement requires timely patching of web software, restricting administrative access, and monitoring for unauthorized changes using file integrity tools or web application firewalls to detect and prevent unauthorized content modifications.
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Hackers continue to target Russia with cyberattacks, defacing Russian TV to show pro-Ukrainian messages and taking down the RuTube video streaming site. [...]
The Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two of the country's state-owned banks, Privatbank (Ukraine's largest bank) and Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), are being hammered by Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. [...]