Hackers Dub Russians Nazis, Mine Harvard Dogecoins and Fix Women's Webcams

In case you missed our coverage this week in ThreatWatch, Nextgov’s regularly updated index of cyber breaches:

• Hacked Russian news site renames citizens 'Nazis'

Amid ongoing unrest in Ukraine, an unknown entity penetrated the Russia Today (RT) site to insert the term for Hitler’s fascist German government into several conflict-related headlines.

• Handyman rigs webcams to spy on his female acquaintances

A 30-year-old was convicted on three counts of unauthorized access to computer material and two counts of voyeurism, following an investigation prompted by fishy software found on a victim’s machine.

• Two Devices in London Commandeer 300,000 Victims’ Routers

The small and home office routers, owned by unwitting consumers mostly in Eastern Europe and Asia, have succumbed to a hack that can – but has yet to – send users to data-stealing sites.

• Attackers seize Crimea telecom nodes and destroy cables

Most phone lines and Internet services were down in Ukraine's Crimea region following sabotage.

• NSA-endorsed cyber training institution hacked by prankster

An intruder vandalized the website of the EC-Council, an organization that runs IT security education and certification programs.

• Harvard supercomputer exploited to mine Dogecoin

A member of the school community propped up a virtual currency production operation using a university research network.

ThreatWatch is a regularly updated catalog of data breaches successfully striking every sector of the globe, as reported by journalists, researchers and the victims themselves.

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