SiegedSec, short for Sieged Security and commonly self-described as the "Gay Furry Hackers", was a black-hat criminal hacktivist group/extremist group, that was formed in early 2022, that committed a number of high profile cyber attacks, including attacks on NATO, Idaho National Laboratory, and Real America's Voice. On July 10, 2024, after attacking The Heritage Foundation, the group announced that they would be disbanding in an effort to avoid closer scrutiny.
SiegedSec, short for Sieged Security and commonly self-described as the "Gay Furry Hackers", was a black-hat criminal hacktivist group/extremist group, that was formed in early 2022, that committed a number of high profile cyber attacks, including attacks on NATO, Idaho National Laboratory, and Real America's Voice. On July 10, 2024, after attacking The Heritage Foundation, the group announced that they would be disbanding in an effort to avoid closer scrutiny.
== Description == SiegedSec was led by an individual under the alias "vio". Short for "Sieged Security", SiegedSec's Telegram channel was first created in April 2022, and they commonly referred to themselves as "gay furry hackers". SiegedSec has targeted a wide variety of organisations, ranging from intergovernmental organisations like NATO and federal research facilities like the Idaho National Laboratory to right-wing movements like The Heritage Foundation and Real America's Voice, and various U.S. states that have pursued legislative decisions against gender-affirming care.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).