A self-styled hacking collective using the name Nullsec PH has taken credit for breaching and altering a page on the website of the Senate of the Philippines, framing the intrusion as a push for cleaner governance.
In the message tied to the breach, the group said it had been watching how those in power conduct the public’s business and pressed officials to operate with greater openness and answerability.
By the time of writing, visitors to the Senate’s official portal were met with a maintenance notice rather than the chamber’s usual pages — a shutdown that came after the unauthorized posts surfaced during the early hours.
The name attached to the breach is not new to those who track digital intrusions in the country. Nullsec PH has surfaced repeatedly over the past year in connection with attacks on state-run platforms, typically pairing the technical break-in with statements railing against graft. In October 2025, according to cybersecurity monitor Deep Web Konek, the group seized a page belonging to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s Central Luzon regional office and replaced it with a manifesto condemning corruption, urging Filipinos to confront wrongdoing rather than accept it.
The collective’s reach has also extended beyond Philippine borders. Reporting tied to the group describes it claiming a hand, alongside another outfit known as CyberTeam, in the defacement of the Royal Thai Navy’s website in 2025 — an episode widely read as politically motivated rather than financially driven.
Government legislative sites have been a recurring target for various actors. The Senate’s web infrastructure was previously compromised in August 2024 by a group calling itself DeathNote Hackers, an incident the Department of Information and Communications Technology characterized at the time as contained, noting that only material already meant for public access had been reached.
