Brazilians wake to fake alien attack alerts on 19 June after hackers slipped through a backdoor the FCC has spent years studying Paweł/Pixabay A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert ...

Thousands of Brazilians received emergency alerts in the middle of the night warning of an "alien attack." Users received a flurry of push notifications mimicking government emergency alerts. It was ...

A hacker who breached Brazil's national emergency alert system and pushed fake 'alien attack' warnings to millions of phones overnight has handed cybersecurity experts a working demonstration of a ...

Millions of Brazilians were jolted awake by a sudden 'alien invasion' phone alert at around 1:30am on 19 and 20 June, after emergency systems in cities including Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro ...