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Anonymous hacker collective has attacked the official website of Asia Pacific telecommunity and defaced it in protest against growing plans for internet censorship in Asia. The hackers gained access of the website’s admin panel (running Drupal) and from there, leaked all the data stored on the website along with defacing the site with one of their […]
No, the hackers weren’t mad at any dinosaurs. On Christmas Eve, Egyptian hackers associated with the Anonymous Rabaa Team have defaced the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica, and more specifically, two pages with details about the System of Conservation Areas and the Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), the inspiration for Isla […]
Anonymous hackers have conducted yet another cyber attack on Turkey’s cyberspace targeting its banking system. The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted another series of cyber attacks on Turkey and, this time, their target was the backbone of the country ie. the banking sector. According to local media, several banks were hit with powerful DDoS attack […]
An online blog falsely claiming to represent Anonymous has announced its support for presidential candidate Mr. Bernie Sanders — In reply Anonymous hacktivists have denied any support for any presidential candidate. AnonHQ blog claims to be the official voice of the online hacktivist group Anonymous however the reality is far from the truth — The blog has […]
Short Bytes: This Sunday, Japan police revealed that the hacktivist collective Anonymous has attacked about 100 websites in Japan since September. The group has taken the responsibility of attacks and labeled it as a response to Japan’s whale-hunting policies. Talking about the big names, the personal website of the Japanese Prime Minister was also targeted. The hacktivist […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous has claimed the responsibility for a massive 40Gbps DDoS attack on Turkish DNS Servers under NIC.tr — The reason behind the attack is that Turkey is allegedly supporting and aiding the Daesh or ISIS/ISIL terrorist group. In a video uploaded by Anonymous, the hacktivists said that their attack on Turkish servers was […]
Image | fossBytes Short Bytes: A group of teenage hackers has traced multiple ISIS Twitter accounts to the UK Government’s Department of Work and Pensions. Addressing the issue, the UK officials revealed that some IP addresses were sold to Saudi Arabian firms back in October and it appears that some of them are being used […]
Anonymous is known for conducting cyber attacks against injustice but not every operation makes it to the news — There are several ongoing ops which the readers should know about. There are some campaigns which Anonymous collective has been running and are hardly ever noticed by anyone. Most of the readers only know the famous […]
Image | fossBytes Short Bytes: A hacker from Anonymous collective has come forward to explain how Anonymous locates ISIS-affiliated Twitter handles and websites. She calls Anonymous a group of dedicated people who are doing this for humanity. While we are receiving some reports about recent structural problems with the Anonymous’ global war on ISIS, the […]
ShortRead: Anonymous trolled the ISIS terrorists a couple of days ago but rather than replying to the hacktivists, the group leaked personal data and claimed that it belongs to military officials in France and US. ISIS in response to Anonymous trolling day on 11th December has leaked personal information of 160 alleged military personnel from […]
Image: fossBytes Short Bytes: Anonymous is known for taking up different causes and defacing the offensive websites. However, this time, the hacktivist group has hacked the European Space Agency website domains. Justifying the act, Anonymous has called it a hack that was carried out just for fun. The hacktivist collective Anonymous has just released the database […]
he hacker did it “for the lulz,” no other reason.Anonymous have just released data online belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). The group justified the hack as “for the LulZ.” While most of the time the group takes up causes and carries out DDoS attacks, defaces websites, or breaches databases in behalf of these […]
ShortRead: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. Earlier today, Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the European Space Agency (ESA) website (due.esrin.esa.int, […]
Short Bytes: Anonymous is a decentralized hacktivist group that has been into existence since 2003. It is hard to predict the actual size of the group as most of its activities are not commenced in the daylight. Yevgeny Golovchenko, a research student at the University of Copenhagen, did make his efforts to approximate the number of […]
MIT researchers claim they have developed “Vuvuzela” SMS Text Messaging System which is way more secure than Tor and provides guaranteed untraceable communication. The researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a messaging system that is, even more, secure than Tor and in reality, can create anonymous connections — Earlier this year, MIT and Qatar […]
One month after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, waged a deadly terror attack on Paris, the hacktivist group Anonymous has organized a full day of ISIS trolling. All are invited to participate in heckling ISIS online and in several planned demonstrations in the United States and Europe. Yet ISIS isn’t Anonymous’ […]
Short Bytes: Warning the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Anonymous has said, “Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything. You have been warned.” The collective has posted a video online that highlights Trump’s nonsense statements that helping ISIS indirectly. The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is the next target of Anonymous hacktivist collective. This […]
Earlier this week Anonymous announced that the group will not only conduct cyber attacks against ISIS but also troll them with additional humor on 11th December. Anonymous also urged people from around the world to join the hacktivist group, post memes and photoshopped images of the terrorist group to annoy the supporters and the sympathizers of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group. […]
Remember a couple of months ago a hacker defaced Donald Trump’s official website with a tribute message for Jon Stewart? — Now Anonymous has done the same but with a DDoS attack. The online hacktivist group Anonymous has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on one of the Donald trump’s website for Trump Tower New York “trumptowerny.com” […]
Earlier this year we reported Anonymous is targeting Japanese airport websites against dolphin slaughter in the country — The cyber attacks were conducted under the banner of operation OpKillingBay. Now, Anonymous group is believed to have attacked the website of Japanese Prime Minister “Shinzo Abe” in protest to the resumption of the hunting of Whales […]
Short Bytes: With gitnonymous project, now you can obfuscate your true identity while making Git commits and pushing to public repositories. Using the instructions given on the GitHub page, learn to setup your anonymous account. Chris McCormick (aka chr15m) released an open source project called gitnonymous which can help you contribute to any public repository by […]