Anonymous attacks

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Hacker campaign targets US prison contractor
bangkokpost.com
25/02/2012

Hacker group Anonymous on Friday vandalized the website of a major US prison contractor in the latest salvo in an anti-police campaign. Anonymous subgroup "Antisec" took credit for replacing The Geo Group website home page with a rap song dedicated in part to convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal and a message condemning prisons and policing in the United States.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose birth name is Wesley Cook, is a former Black Panther and radio journalist serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting death of a police officer in Philadelphia. Activists around the world have rallied in support of the former Death Row inmate, who they contend fell prey to racism in the justice system.

"As part of our ongoing efforts to dismantle the prison industrial complex, we attacked one of the largest private prison corporations in the US - Geo Group," Anonymous said in a message posted at the Geo Group website. "We are acting in solidarity with all those who have ever been wrongfully profiled, arrested, brutalized, incarcerated, and have had all dignity and humanity stripped from them as they are cast into the gulags of America."

The Geo Group manages prisons, mental health facilities, or detention centers in Australia, Britain, South Africa, and North America. The corporation reported $77.5 million in net profit on $1.6 billion in revenue last year.

Anonymous also took credit Thursday for an online raid of the Los Angeles Police Canine Association and the posting of personal and potentially embarrassing information. "Over the past three weeks, we in the cabin have been targeting law enforcement sites across the United States," hackers said in a message atop a file at Pastebin.com containing officers' addresses, phone numbers and more. "Be it for injustices they have allowed through ignorance or naivety, taken part in, or to point out the fact that their insecurity failed to protect the safety of those they took an oath to serve," the group said of its motives.

The hackers claimed to have gotten the addresses of more than 1,000 officers along with information from police warrants and court summonses as well as about informants in their weeks-long series of attacks on police computers.

Anonymous law enforcement targets in recent weeks have included the websites of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Home Office under attack from Anonymous hackers
April 07, 2012

Hackers' group Anonymous claimed Saturday to have brought down the website of Britain's Home Office in protest over proposed new electronic surveillance laws. The website went down around 9:30pm local time just moments after the shadowy global hacking network declared in a tweet, "TANGO DOWN -- http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk For your draconian surveillance proposals! Told you to #ExpectUs!"

It was still down more than an hour later, reading "service unavailable" -- reminiscent of the denial-of-service attacks launched against other sites including the website of the CIA. The group was apparently referring to new legislation proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government that would expand state surveillance in the name of national security.

The new laws would allow the government to conduct some trials in secret and enable authorities to track the phone calls, text messages and online activity, including emails, of the entire population. A spokesman for the Home Office, the government department responsible for immigration, counterterrorism and law and order, told Sky News in a statement, "We are aware of some reports that the Home Office website may be the subject of an online protest. We have put all potential measures in place and will be monitoring the situation very closely,"

This is the latest in the string of high profile hacks for Anonymous, which claimed to have briefly knocked offline the website of the CIA in February. The group has also targeted the FBI, US Justice Department and police departments across the US.

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Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown arrested in Dallas
Travis Hudson
dallasnews.com
September 13, 2012

Barrett Brown, the self-proclaimed spokesman for the hacker group Anonymous, was arrested in Dallas last night, Dallas Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carmen Castro tells The News this evening. She says he was booked in shortly before 11 p.m., then “released over to the FBI” this morning.

“There’s nothing listed on his profile for any offenses,” she says. “I’ve tried to reach the FBI myself, and they said they don’t have anything to share.” Which is the same response The News has received: Earlier today we were told to expect a comment by this afternoon, but shortly after 4 p.m. Katherine Chaumont, the FBI’s local spokesperson, said there will be no comment today after all. And she’s not sure about tomorrow either.

The reason for Brown’s arrest is unknown, but California-based law firm Leiderman Devine tweeted that the reason was for threatening an FBI agent. Wired’s Threat Level blog has more details about the background about the possible threat that led to the raid.

It’s toward the end of the video that Brown makes his threat: “Robert Smith’s life is over. So when I say life is over, I don’t say I’m going to kill him. But I’m going to ruin his life and look into his [expletive] kids because Aaron Barr did the same thing and he didn’t get raided for it. How do you like them apples?” Barr is the former HBGary Federal CEO whose email was hacked by Anonymous in February. He goes on: “Any armed officials of the U.S. government, particularly the FBI, will be regarded as potential Zeta assassin squads and … they know that I’m armed … and I will shoot all of them and kill them if they come and do anything because they are engaged in a criminal conspiracy and I have reason to fear for my life, not just from the zetas but from the U.S. government.”

Leiderman Devine tweeted earlier today an arraignment was scheduled for Thursday. The California-based law firm confirms it represents Brown, but per a tweet moments ago it’s no longer able to do so long-distance — as in, “Barrett needs a local Dallas atty ASAP. Current counsel can’t continue.” Shortly before that, someone at the firm tweeted that Brown “will be held in federal detention in Dallas pending trial on threatening a federal agent charge.”

Thursday evening, Jay Leiderman said he’s ben told Brown is being held at a Federal Detention Facility in Seagoville, and that he will be held there through trial “unless the ruling is revisited.” And he confirms, once again: “Is is the threatening an agent charge, and it is based on those videos.” He says he’s been told the FBI raided Brown’s apartment, took him to the county jail, then picked him up this morning. Leiderman also says Brown is now being represented by a federal public defender. “The FBI will turn over reports through discovery, which may shed more light on their thinking process,” Liederman says. “But I don’t know how much more light, given we think this is a closed universe of possibilities — by which I mean that YouTube video.”

Brown and other individuals were participating in a video chat last night when the raid occurred and audio was captured of law enforcement agents bursting into saying “You’re going down! Get your hands down!” Watch the video here, but note that the audio contains adult language and loud noises. Brown’s history in Dallas spans back more than a decade. In a March 2011 profile by D Magazine, Brown talks about working as an intern at The Met, the late local alternative weekly magazine, before eventually beginning collaboration with Anonymous in 2006. Since then he’s claimed responsibility for bringing down the Church of Scientology and the attacks on Visa and Mastercard relating to a frozen Paypal account for Wikileaks.

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PayPal, Symantec hacked as Anonymous begins November 5 hacking spree
As it becomes the 5th of November around the world, Anonymous announced a hacking spree that has claimed many websites and a few databases - plus a planned V For Vendetta reenactment at the Houses of Parliament.
Violet Blue
Zero Day
November 5, 2012

The press arm for Anonymous has announced that it has begun its hacking spree for the 5th of November - Guy Fawkes Day. Claims are circulating that hackers - some affilaited with Anonymous, and some not - have dumped user and employee account information on accounts from PayPal, Symantec, the defacement of Saturday Night Live's website, Australian government websites and much more.

CLARIFICATION: Claim for Symantec goes to @Doxbin, and they have stated that "HTP is not affiliated with Anonymous."

UPDATE Nov. 4, 10:20 PM PST: Anonymous has claimed a document dump on The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) "the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization."

UPDATE Nov. 5, 12:20 AM PST: Reagrding Anonymous' post of docs and statement it hacked PayPal, PayPal's head of PR has tweeted that there is "no evidence to validate this claim." Yet at the time of this writing Anonymous Australia posted this URL to a PrivatePaste page - linking to five pages of data on an estimated 27,935 PayPal accounts. Within the past few hours that PrivatePaste page has since been removed.

UPDATE Nov. 5, 11:38 AM PST: PayPal has responded to request for comment and Anuj Nayar (PayPal's Senior Director of Communications) tells me via email, "It appears that the exploit was not directed at PayPal after all, it was directed at a company called ZPanel. The original story that started this and was retweeted by some of the Anonymous Twitter handles has now been updated." PayPal sent me this link to Cyberwars' newly updated post (the primary post information originated from).

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Monday's main focus seems to be an anti-suveillance protest - like with the recent Anonymous October 20 protest - with November 5th intent aimed at surveillance systems such as TrapWire and INDECT. Trapwire and INDECT's opponents believe that the surveillance systems to be direct threats to privacy and certain civil freedoms and that their implementation could constitute human rights violations.

According to the various Anonymous Twitter accounts announcing the hacks and linking to document dumps, this is just the beginning of doc dumps and defacements for its day of protest. News of the protest is being shared on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Pastebin. The hacktivists have also included in its Nov. 5th announcements tonight the hacking and defacement of Australian government sites, ImageShack and PayPal (claiming a zero day exploit), Ascension Australia, NBC.com and Lady Gaga's fan site (claimed for the spree by "Pyknic"), Saturday Night Live's website, the Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno portals, Australian steel and mining company Arcelor Mittal, homewares website GiftNow, the Greek City website, the Ghana Consulate website, and claim to have leaked VMware ESX Server Kernel source code via twitter today. Anonymous Australia seems to be the most active at this time.

At the same time, the press arm for Anonymous has announced - via a press release on Pastebin - that it is rallying the public for an in-person V For Vendetta protest at The Houses of Parliament, at 8PM in London. Protesters in Canada will get a rude surprise if they don Guy Fawkes masks - because last week Canada's House of Commons approved a bill that bans people from hiding their faces during riots.

We're watching and following the developments as they happen. And right now they're happening fast - and furiously.

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ZHC hack Israeli Vice Prime-Minister's Facebook page
http://rt.com/news/anonymous-hack-israel-vice-prime-minister-200/

They also got his gmail, picassa and blog.

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I don't remember there being attacks by anonymous which would benefit the USA as much as the moral reasons they followed to carry out the attacks would benefit the people they were intended to help.

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