Prolific hacktivist group, Ghost Squad Hackers—also known as “GSH”— announced several new hacks of various government-affiliated sites and servers in a probable attempt to undermine public confidence in government at a time of universal unease due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under their de facto leader known as “s1ege,” the politically motivated group in the past couple of weeks alone conducted attacks against the servers and official sites belonging to the Australian government and the governments of India, Pakistan, Thailand, and Zimbabwe.Since 2016, Ghost Squad Hackers has conducted several cyber campaigns against high-profile entities to meet the group’s stated ends to disrupt and undermine the confidence in otherwise stable governments. Blood cardavion. GSH started by defacing of Ethiopian government websites in response to the killing of nearly 500 students and activists by Ethiopian Security Forces during a protest.“Our intentions are to save innocent livesto help provide justice where governments fall short or to give justice to governments when the people can’t.

Interestingly enough, world famous botnet builder “0x20k,” also of Ghost Squad Hackers, released a statement this morning reading “lets say (GSH) isn't that active.