Understanding NullBulge, the New AI-Fighting 'Hacktivist' Group

By Kevin Poireault for Infosecurity Magazine
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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It maintains a public-facing presence on social media platforms like X and 4chan, where it claims to be a hacktivist group “protecting artists around the world” against AI. It also claims to be uninterested in profit, although SentinelOne observed malicious activities that may indicate otherwise.

However, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb, believes the Disney hack it is more likely to be a financially motivated attack than an act of hacktivism.

“Hacktivists are highly unlikely to run operations of such scale to protect intellectual property and the rights of artists,” he said.

Given the volume and nature of the reportedly compromised data, it may rather be exploited to blackmail Disney, similar to the notoriously devastating Sony hack.

He added that another plausible motivation for the attack could be censoring certain movies, topics or ideas from Disney’s digital content, suggesting a politically rather than morally driven act. Read Full Article