Gnosis is a hacker collective known for the December 2010 breach of Gawker. The intrusion was reportedly conducted in retaliation connected to a feud involving Gawker and 4chan. The operation resulted in the public exposure of data belonging to roughly 1.3 million users and included information from multiple Gawker-affiliated properties such as Gizmodo and Lifehacker. The breach had downstream effects because reused passwords enabled secondary compromises of victims' online accounts, including social-media accounts later abused for spam distribution. Based on the available facts, Gnosis is associated with unauthorized access and large-scale data disclosure motivated by retaliatory or ideological grievance rather than financially driven extortion. Publicly supported information in this record is limited to the Gawker incident, and no high-confidence attribution to a nation-state or broader sustained campaign is established here.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
5 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.