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 ...

Hackers breached government systems in Brazil to send millions of people a mysterious ‘extreme’ alert.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, millions of Brazilians were jolted awake by a mysterious message from the country’s ...

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

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 ...

A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones ...

A suspected cyberattack hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system, sending mysterious “misantropi4” warnings to phones across multiple states and prompting a federal investigation ...

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." ...