VandaTheGod is a hacker who has been active since 2013.
The hacker, who sometimes goes by the online handles of “Vanda de Assis” and “SH1N1NG4M3”, claims to be associated with various hacking groups, including the Brazilian Cyber Army and UGNazi.
VandaTheGod’s activities included the defacement of websites of governments around the world, often accompanied with messages expressing outrage over injustice or corruption, or breaking into the email systems of government workers, and Brasilian universities.
And VandaTheGod relished documenting his hacks and website defacements on his social media accounts.
VandaTheGod was certainly keeping himself busy, defacing 4,820 different websites in the eight months leading up to February 2020 – that’s over 20 every month! Meanwhile, the hacker was not above offering stolen data for sale, such as a million patient records stolen from a New Zealand health organisation.
But VandaTheGod’s delight in showing off about his hacks on social media may have proven to be his undoing.
Security researchers at Check Point describe how they investigated the hacker’s online footprint, and found a tweet which portrayed the hacked account of Brazilian actor Myrian Rios.
What many people may not have noticed in the image of Ms Rios’s hacked account, however, was a browser tab leading to a Facebook account in the name of “Vanda De Assis.”
Meanwhile, the researchers had discovered that VandaTheGod’s website had been registered using the ..
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