An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government ...

Officials said the false messages were "remotely ordered by someone outside the national system of protection and civil defense," and delivered to "various regions of the country." ...

A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones overnight has handed cybersecurity experts a working demonstration of a ...

Brazil’s civil defense alert system was hacked, sending fake extreme alerts with the word “misantropi4” to millions of phones before the platform was shut down. The Federal Police has been activated ...

Hackers breached Brazil’s emergency alert system and used the government’s civil defense platform to send millions of highest ...

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Brazil’s Integration and Regional Development Ministry and federal police are investigating an intrusion into the civil defense alert system that sent messages containing the word “misanthropy” to the ...