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Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

  • Ana Maria Constantin--The Next Web
  • published date: 2026-06-21 09:30:24 UTC

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken offline…

TL;DR Brazils civil defense alert system was hacked, sending fake extreme alerts with the word misantropi4 to millions of phones before the platform was shut down. Hackers breached Brazils national… [+4446 chars]