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March 20 2025	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous released a video alleging that Elon Musk manipulated votes in the 2025 US election to ensure Donald Trump's victory, claiming to possess evidence of electoral tampering, though the full details remain unconfirmed due to internet censorship.
March 2025	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous launched Operation Dreadnaught, a website criticizing the Trump presidency, Republican party, MAGA movement, Trump, and Elon Musk. The website explicitly stated its mission to combat what it perceived as fascism in America, highlighting the group's ongoing political activism and opposition to specific political figures and movements.
June 2024	Row hammer ETH Zürich researchers announced RISC-H, the first Rowhammer exploit for RISC-V chips.
March 2024	Row hammer Researchers at ETH Zürich announced ZenHammer, a Rowhammer exploit for AMD Zen chips, and the first use of Rowhammer to exploit DDR5 SDRAM.
March 10 2024	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous attacked Dimona nuclear plant systems, stealing and publishing over 7 gigabytes of data after issuing an ultimatum for a ceasefire to the Israeli government.
2023	CyberBunker Netflix released the documentary 'Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld', which provides insights into the CyberBunker operation, featuring interviews with prosecutors, police officers, the mayor of Traben-Trarbach, journalists, Xennt, and other organization members.
December 2023	CyberBunker CyberBunker's website became active again under cyberbunker.pro and cyberbunker.world domains.
October 7 2023	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous targeted multiple Israeli systems including the Iron Dome missile defense system, government websites, Israeli websites, and cameras during the Israel-Palestinian War.
2022	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous launched cyber operations against Russia in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, targeting state-controlled media RT and hacking Russian state TV channels to broadcast pro-Ukraine content and war footage.
2022	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous leaked 82GB of Australian police emails in protest of the country's offshore refugee detention policy.
2022	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous reportedly hacked a yacht allegedly belonging to Vladimir Putin, changing its call sign to 'FCKPTN' and setting its destination to 'hell', and broadcasting a troll face picture through a hacked Russian military radio.
2022	Events associated with Anonymous In response to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant seizure, Anonymous defaced Rosatom's website and gained access to gigabytes of data intended for public leak.
September 2022	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous hacked Yandex Taxi, causing a traffic jam lasting up to three hours by sending dozens of cars to a single location.
May 9 2022	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down RuTube video-hosting website through cyberattacks on Russia's Victory Day.
2021	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous's Brazilian branch hacked the website of Brumadinho City Hall, leaving a video to commemorate the dam disaster of 25 January 2019 which resulted in 270 fatalities, drawing attention to the environmental and human tragedy.
2021	CyberBunker Xennt and six other defendants were convicted of forming a criminal organization, receiving prison sentences between 28 and 59 months.
September 13 2021	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous released a massive data leak of 180 gigabytes from Epik, a domain registrar known for hosting far-right websites, exposing domain purchase details, account credentials, payment history, and employee emails.
September 11 2021	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous hacked the website of the Republican Party of Texas, replacing it with text about their operation, an invitation to join Operation Jane, and a Planned Parenthood donation link.
September 3 2021	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous launched 'Operation Jane', a campaign aimed at disrupting efforts to enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act by overwhelming investigational resources of anti-abortion 'whistleblower' sites.
May 2021	Row hammer Google research team announced the Half-Double exploit, taking advantage of worsening physics in newer DRAM chips.
November 20 2020	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous hacked the Uganda Police website in response to violent protests and crackdowns against protesters supporting presidential candidate Bobi Wine. The hack took the website offline for several days, with Anonymous highlighting the police's alleged actions of murdering 28 people, arresting 577, and injuring dozens during protests challenging President Yoweri Museveni's long-standing rule.
May 2020	Row hammer TRRespass research revealed that DDR4 DRAM chips, previously claimed to be protected against Rowhammer, are actually vulnerable through a new 'many-sided hammering' access pattern.
May 28 2020	Events associated with Anonymous A Filipino Anonymous group hacked the PLDT customer service Twitter account as a protest against poor internet service. They changed the profile name to 'PLDT Doesn't Care' and posted a message highlighting the importance of internet connectivity during the pandemic, using the group's signature declarative statements about their collective identity and purpose.
2019	Row hammer Research reveals that Target Row Refresh (TRR) mitigations on DDR4 UDIMMs and LPDDR4X chips are ineffective in protecting against Rowhammer attacks.
December 2019	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous successfully accessed six email accounts of the Chilean Army, revealing sensitive information about intelligence, operations, finances, and international relations covering the period from 2015 to 2019.
November 2019	Events associated with Anonymous Anonymous hacked multiple Chinese websites in retaliation for the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, exposing personal identity information of government employees and corporate data.
September 2019	CyberBunker 600 German police officers raided the Traben-Trarbach bunker, arresting seven people.
2016	CyberBunker A denial of service attack on Deutsche Telekom was allegedly launched from the CyberBunker bunker.
October 2016	Row hammer Researchers published DRAMMER, an Android application that uses Rowhammer to gain root access on several popular smartphones, with Google releasing a mitigation within a month.
2015	CyberBunker German cybercrime investigators obtained a warrant to investigate the company by monitoring its Internet traffic in and out of the bunker.
July 2015	Row hammer Security researchers published a paper describing an architecture-independent method for exploiting Rowhammer, including a JavaScript implementation called Rowhammer.js that demonstrates a high-level exploit of the vulnerability.
March 9 2015	Row hammer Google's Project Zero revealed two working privilege escalation exploits based on the Rowhammer effect on the x86-64 architecture, including an exploit targeting Google Native Client and another that gains unrestricted access to physical memory.
June 2014	Row hammer Initial research into the Rowhammer effect was published and presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, demonstrating read disturbance bitflips in 110 out of 129 tested DDR3 DRAM modules from three manufacturers.
2013	CyberBunker CyberBunker purchased its second bunker location in Traben-Trarbach, Germany.
December 3 2013	Row hammer MemTest86 version 5.0 is released, adding a Rowhammer test to check RAM susceptibility to disturbance errors, but only functional with UEFI boot.
March 2013	CyberBunker CyberBunker was involved in a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus, which received significant mainstream media attention due to its unprecedented scale.
2012	Row hammer Researchers identify that commercially available DDR3 SDRAM chips manufactured in this year are susceptible to disturbance errors, officially introducing the term 'Rowhammer'.

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