Anonops #15: Last or not to Last

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ECA_Legion twitterde op dinsdag 28-01-2014 om 23:11:43 It's not just you nsa.gov appears to be Down via #Anonymous reageer retweet

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r3v3r3nd_m4yh3m twitterde op dinsdag 28-01-2014 om 23:30:15 STEAL THIS TWEET nsa.gov #TANGODOWN #Anonymous #ProtectSnowden #FreeAnons #OpBlitzkrieg We Are Legion #AntiSec #LulzSec reageer retweet

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Feds illegally poured through journalist’s computer for evidence of hacking, says attorney

US federal agents illegally obtained evidence against a former Reuters journalist when they scoured his computer for documents that were not mentioned in the search warrant they were granted, the reporter’s attorney argued in court Wednesday.

Matthew Keys, 26, was charged in 2012 with conspiring with hackers from Anonymous, providing them with a username and password that allowed them access to the Los Angeles Times website and subsequently change a headline. When federal agents investigating Keys examined the computer in question they accessed files Keys had sent about his own case to another journalist who was at work on a book about the anonymous hacking collective.

Keys’ attorney, Jay Leiderman, asked the US district court in Sacramento to suppress any evidence the police obtained from that computer.

“The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist’s files,” he said Wednesday, nothing “there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized.”

How the prosecution plans to use the information investigators obtained is unclear, however authorities said the search needed to be conducted because files relevant to the investigation may have been deleted by Keys. Attorneys cited child pornography investigations, in which entire hard drives are often seized, provide a precedent for this case.

According to the Guardian, Leiderman responded by saying that a child porn example is irrelevant to this case and asserted that Keys, being a journalist, would not destroy files that were part of an ongoing story.

The Justice Department claims that Keys, dejected over being fired from his job at KXTL Fox 40, a Tribune Company subsidiary, gave his log-in information to hackers in an Anonymous chat room and told them to “go f**k some shit up.” They then infiltrated the site of the Los Angeles Times, another Tribune company, and changed a headline from “Pressure builds in House to Pass Tax-Cuts” to “Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337,” a reference to another hacker group.

Prosecutors explained that the plan was designed to “make unauthorized changes to web sites that the Tribune Company used to communicate news features to the public; and to damage computer systems used by the Tribune Company.”

Leiderman said that Keys was acting as an embedded journalist when the alleged criminal activity occurred in 2010. Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine if convicted, although prosecutors told the Associated Press last year that Keys would likely be sentenced to between 10 and 27 months behind bars because he has no criminal record. Keys has refused a plea bargain.

“He met these people in chat rooms, they knew he was a journalist and knew where he used to work,” Leiderman told the Huffington Post, adding that the credentials Keys provided were incapable of gaining access to the LA Times site. “There’s an incongruity to all of this that we’re hoping to get to the bottom of in the next couple months.”

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Anonymous hacks the FBI

We know who your agents are

The Slovenian branch of Anonymous claims it has hacked the FBI and uploading email addresses and personal information relating to the director to online storage site Pastebin.

Black-Shadow of the Slovenian branch of Anonymous said he has posted the FBI domain email addresses and passwords for 68 agents, although the user claims in his post that the collected log-in details are "not all ours".

His post also includes a short profile on FBI director James Comey, including sensitive information such as his date of birth, his wife's name, the date they got married, his educational history and even the geographical coordinates of his residence. Handy if you have access to a spare drone or cruise missile.

Two internal FBI websites are also included in the post – the FBI's Virtual Academy website from its training division, and the FBI Agents Association.

Two of the FBI's domain name servers for its website www.fbi.gov were targeted, and the hackers took information from seven open ports on the servers.

Anonymous Slovenia posted the Pastebin link on its Facebook Page, along with the comment "Laughing at your security." We guess that the only thing the Americans could come back at is that the Slovenians serve donkey in their pizza restaurants.

Anonymous has been out of the headlines lately thanks mostly to infighting amongst its members. It had developed a reputation for being script kiddies using DoS attacks. This particular take down suggests that there are some good hackers in the organisation who are working despite of the organisation's shortcomings.

Read more: http://news.techeye.net/b(...)he-fbi#ixzz2sN7EZmOf

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War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show

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A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News.

The blunt instrument the spy unit used to target hackers, however, also interrupted the web communications of political dissidents who did not engage in any illegal hacking. It may also have shut down websites with no connection to Anonymous.

According to the documents, a division of Government Communications Headquarters Communications (GCHQ), the British counterpart of the NSA, shut down communications among Anonymous hacktivists by launching a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack – the same technique hackers use to take down bank, retail and government websites – making the British government the first Western government known to have conducted such an attack.

The documents, from a PowerPoint presentation prepared for a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV, show that the unit known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, boasted of using the DDOS attack – which it dubbed Rolling Thunder -- and other techniques to scare away 80 percent of the users of Anonymous internet chat rooms.

The existence of JTRIG has never been previously disclosed publicly.

The documents also show that JTRIG infiltrated chat rooms known as IRCs and identified individual hackers who had taken confidential information from websites. In one case JTRIG helped send a hacktivist to prison for stealing data from PayPal, and in another it helped identify hacktivists who attacked government websites.

In connection with this report, NBC is publishing documents that Edward Snowden took from the NSA before fleeing the U.S. The documents are being published with minimal redactions.

Intelligence sources familiar with the operation say that the British directed the DDOS attack against IRC chat rooms where they believed criminal hackers were concentrated. Other intelligence sources also noted that in 2011, authorities were alarmed by a rash of attacks on government and corporate websites and were scrambling for means to respond.

“While there must of course be limitations,” said Michael Leiter, the former head of the U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Center and now an NBC News analyst, “law enforcement and intelligence officials must be able to pursue individuals who are going far beyond speech and into the realm of breaking the law: defacing and stealing private property that happens to be online.”

“No one should be targeted for speech or thoughts, but there is no reason law enforcement officials should unilaterally declare law breakers safe in the online environment,” said Leiter.

But critics charge the British government with overkill, noting that many of the individuals targeted were teenagers, and that the agency’s assault on communications among hacktivists means the agency infringed the free speech of people never charged with any crime.

“Targeting Anonymous and hacktivists amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs,” said Gabriella Coleman, an anthropology professor at McGill University and author of an upcoming book about Anonymous. “Some have rallied around the name to engage in digital civil disobedience, but nothing remotely resembling terrorism. The majority of those embrace the idea primarily for ordinary political expression.” Coleman estimated that the number of “Anons” engaged in illegal activity was in the dozens, out of a community of thousands.

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The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us

^{By Gabriella Coleman 02.04.14}

The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.

Specifically, they implemented distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the internet relay chat (IRC) rooms used by Anonymous. They also implanted malware to out the personal identity details of specific participants. And while we only know for sure that the U.K.’s GCHQ and secret spy unit known as the “Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group” (JTRIG) launched these attacks in an operation called “Rolling Thunder,” the U.S.’ NSA was likely aware of what they were doing because the British intelligence agents presented their program interventions at the NSA conference SIGDEV in 2012. (Not to mention the two agencies sharing close ties in general.)

Whether you agree with the activities of Anonymous or not — which have included everything from supporting the Arab Spring protests to DDoSing copyright organizations to doxing child pornography site users — the salient point is that democratic governments now seem to be using their very tactics against them.

The key difference, however, is that while those involved in Anonymous can and have faced their day in court for those tactics, the British government has not. When Anonymous engages in lawbreaking, they are always taking a huge risk in doing so. But with unlimited resources and no oversight, organizations like the GCHQ (and theoretically the NSA) can do as they please. And it’s this power differential that makes all the difference.

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musalbas twitterde op woensdag 05-02-2014 om 12:36:22 The joke's on GCHQ to be honest, AnonOps IRC was down every other day anyway due to Ryan and others DDoSing it out of boredom. reageer retweet

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700+ Russian websites - #TANGO #DOWN #LegionOps

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700+ Russian websites - #TANGO #DOWN
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We warned you Russia. Now you will feel the pain of 700 DOGS.
#LegionOps
#OpSochi
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It's not just you! http://ibm-mos.ru looks down from here.
It's not just you! http://sexandthecity.ru looks down from here.
It's not just you! http://www.you-tube.ru looks down from
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Found 742 domains hosted on the same web server as www.gilat.ru (109.70.27.4).

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BiellaColeman twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2014 om 15:56:33 4 D's " Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, and Deceive." Sounds a lot like GCHQ engages in Trolling http://t.co/hfzv5Z7Kyu reageer retweet

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Anonymous revealed to be under attack from both corporate and government spies

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The attacks were accompanied by threatening emails sent anonymously to those persons JTRIG could identify. When the digital smoke cleared and the attacked servers recovered, chat room participation had dropped 80 percent according to the GCHQ's own documents. The attacks came immediately before a nation-wide crackdown on the Occupy movement, which was later found to be coordinated by a non-profit group called the Police Executive Research Foundation (PERF), which has a board comprised of big-city police chiefs in the United States and Great Britain. The temporary disruption of Anonymous appears to have been done in advance of a wave of brutality against protestors to keep hackivists from organizing online.

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Taken together, the efforts of both JTRIG and Gourley show that the corporatized national security state uses its vast surveillance powers not just to track terrorists, but to attack citizens engaged in dissent. If that dissent consists of taking a stand against alleged institutional child abuse or keeping the homeless from freezing to death it is still targeted by the best highest technology and the most classified operatives.

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Statement on GCHQ's war against Anonymous

The recent news that GCHQ, the British SIGINT directorate, was involved in wide-ranging DDoS of IRC communications channels for global activists is shocking but comes as no surprise to Project PM.

Since its inception, Project PM's wiki and IRC channels have been subject to a determined barrage of sophisticated attacks from a number of different adversaries, with the aim of crippling a First Amendment protected journalism organization. One such attack on our IRC server was so massive it was said to have disrupted the internet for the entire country in which the server was hosted.

Western intelligence services, in an attempt to combat a handful of criminal hackers out of tens of thousands of programmers, journalists, activists & researchers, decided to abuse the law in a fantastically egregious fashion and target not just Project PM, but countless other networks worldwide. These actions, while not just a chilling attack on freedom of speech and association, also gravely undermined efforts to organize safety for activists being repressed, attacked and slaughtered in places like Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Greece, to name a few.

In essence, GCHQ's gross negligence charts a path that started with targeting a few hackers and blossomed into a behavior that undermines the foundational foreign policy objectives of the State Dept., non-governmental organizations and unaligned activists involved in pro-democracy activities. GCHQ's reckless actions also erode the very fundamental purpose a SIGINT directorate is supposed to serve — keeping channels of communication open.

In addition to the documented attacks on Project PM's IRC during 2011, this very wiki has been subjected to relentless bot spam that goes far beyond the normal expected level of activity, has required countless man-hours to remove, and which was traced to internet protocol addresses suspected to be associated with private contracting entities.

Furthermore, during the relevant time frame the information operations engaged by Barrett Brown were continuously targeted for disruption, as the record clearly shows that his online presence was incessantly intimidated and harassed by covert actors, many of whom appeared to be ex-military and somehow associated with HBGary.

As a response to the reports which have been enabled by the whistle-blowing of Edward Snowden, himself a former contractor and thus not covered by whistle-blower protection laws, Project PM urges a renewed effort by an informed citizenry to oppose and expose rogue elements of the intelligence community, consistent with the serious threats to human rights, democracy and transparency posed by this creeping militarization of the internet.

Our statement on GCHQ's war against Anonymous.

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Anonymous Fights Against Venezuelan Govt, Takes Down Several Sites

Anonymous is making a claim on Twitter regarding some attacks on Venezuelan governmental websites. According to several Twitter accounts, some sites were hacked, while others were disrupted with DDoS attacks.

One of the affected sites belongs to the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, while another belongs to the Public Stock Exchange, but the list is longer.

As mentioned, some were hacked, while others were taken down with DDoS attacks.

The announcements come after many days of public protests and several deaths during clashes between protesters and government forces. The country’s President, Nicolas Maduro, has called the events a coup and has asked for the arrest of the leader of the opposition.

Twitter users that have a contract with CANTV, a state-owned ISP, are complaining about not being able to view images anymore. Twitter, as in many other protests, has become the go-to service for people who want to organize rallies and that makes it a target for unhappy governmental forces.

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YourAnonCentral twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2014 om 16:20:36 A special shout out to Stephen Hawking for being the voice over of every single #Anonymous video all these years. http://t.co/jdrERjZSxw reageer retweet

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Twitter Account of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party Hacked

The verified Twitter account of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has been hacked by LulzSec Peru.

The hacktivists have changed the @PartidoPSUV account’s pictures. The profile’s description currently reads “Don’t mess with the best. Hacked by LulzSec Peru.”

After hijacking the account, the hackers posted and retweeted tens of anti-government messages. The attack comes shortly after the Venezuelan state-owned ISP CANTV started blocking Twitter users from seeing certain images and avatar photos.

At the time of writing, the Twitter account of the political party is still controlled by LulzSec Peru.

This isn’t the first time LulzSec Peru hijacks the PSUV’s Twitter account. They also hacked it back in November 2012.

The people of Venezuela are protesting these days against the government. Three protesters were killed earlier this week.

Anonymous: Venezuela PR (Global Conflicts)

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http://www.fgma.gov.ve/

r00t3d

also go ahead and download the mail spool see if there is anything good eh?....

the mail sp00l is 585MB so still uploading at this time....yea its not Friday anymore
Fuck them anyway

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Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

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Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.

The efforts – detailed in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at what the U.S. government calls “the human network that supports WikiLeaks.” The documents also contain internal discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous.

One classified document from Government Communications Headquarters, Britain’s top spy agency, shows that GCHQ used its surveillance system to secretly monitor visitors to a WikiLeaks site. By exploiting its ability to tap into the fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone of the Internet, the agency confided to allies in 2012, it was able to collect the IP addresses of visitors in real time, as well as the search terms that visitors used to reach the site from search engines like Google.

Another classified document from the U.S. intelligence community, dated August 2010, recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Assange over the group’s publication of the Afghanistan war logs.

A third document, from July 2011, contains a summary of an internal discussion in which officials from two NSA offices – including the agency’s general counsel and an arm of its Threat Operations Center – considered designating WikiLeaks as “a ‘malicious foreign actor’ for the purpose of targeting.” Such a designation would have allowed the group to be targeted with extensive electronic surveillance – without the need to exclude U.S. persons from the surveillance searches.

In 2008, not long after WikiLeaks was formed, the U.S. Army prepared a report that identified the organization as an enemy, and plotted how it could be destroyed. The new documents provide a window into how the U.S. and British governments appear to have shared the view that WikiLeaks represented a serious threat, and reveal the controversial measures they were willing to take to combat it.

In a statement to The Intercept, Assange condemned what he called “the reckless and unlawful behavior of the National Security Agency” and GCHQ’s “extensive hostile monitoring of a popular publisher’s website and its readers.”

“News that the NSA planned these operations at the level of its Office of the General Counsel is especially troubling,” Assange said. “Today, we call on the White House to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the extent of the NSA’s criminal activity against the media, including WikiLeaks, its staff, its associates and its supporters.”

Illustrating how far afield the NSA deviates from its self-proclaimed focus on terrorism and national security, the documents reveal that the agency considered using its sweeping surveillance system against Pirate Bay, which has been accused of facilitating copyright violations. The agency also approved surveillance of the foreign “branches” of hacktivist groups, mentioning Anonymous by name.

The documents call into question the Obama administration’s repeated insistence that U.S. citizens are not being caught up in the sweeping surveillance dragnet being cast by the NSA. Under the broad rationale considered by the agency, for example, any communication with a group designated as a “malicious foreign actor,” such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous, would be considered fair game for surveillance.

Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute who specializes in surveillance issues, says the revelations shed a disturbing light on the NSA’s willingness to sweep up American citizens in its surveillance net.

“All the reassurances Americans heard that the broad authorities of the FISA Amendments Act could only be used to ‘target’ foreigners seem a bit more hollow,” Sanchez says, “when you realize that the ‘foreign target’ can be an entire Web site or online forum used by thousands if not millions of Americans.”

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AnonyOps twitterde op dinsdag 18-02-2014 om 14:48:05 The word "Terrorist" is now about as meaningless as it was in the movie "V for Vendetta". reageer retweet

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Anonymous threat: GCHQ Website disrupted by DDoS

Tomorrow GCHQ’s website www.gchq.gov.uk was suffering from downtime and it could be a denial of service attack, some of the noticeable performance issues yesterday:


About GCHQ:

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the British government and armed forces.

Last Week, it was revelaed by the documents from the NSA Leaker Snowdens documents that the British Spy Agency GCHQ used DDoS Attack against the Anonymous hackers during the operation Payback which was used to take down some high profile websites like: MasterCard, Visa, Amazon, Moneybookers, and PostFinance.

Upon searching more about the Snowden documets we find that DDoS Attacks are illegal in the UK under the Police and Justice Act 2006, yet the leaked secret slides shows that GCHQ may have used such techniques against Anonymous.



One of the website of Anonymous group of hackers anonnews.org published a statement after the revelation of Secret documents which showed GCHQ attacked on Anonymous through DDoS Attacks.

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AnonOpsCenter twitterde op woensdag 12-02-2014 om 05:46:03 GCHQ.gov.uk is still #TANGODOWN We are anonymous.It is far to late to expect us. http://t.co/PVbTunXjqt reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op donderdag 20-02-2014 om 15:43:17 police.gov.ua is down, thanks to #Anonymous. reageer retweet

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Anonymous ‘Hacktivists’ Send A Message To White Supremacist Website

Last Friday afternoon, “Anonymous” hacker took control of the official website of the “Nationalist Movement,” a white supremacist organization.

The Mississippi white power group was brought to media attention over the years when they held multiple marches on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader.

Friday, the group found their homepage, nationalist.org defaced, declaring an anti-fascist message:

“Greetings, fellow Anons and Citizens of the world. It has come to our attention that Fascists and white power groups across the world are causing the spread of hate and ignorance,” the message stated. “A spectre is haunting the Earth, the spectre of Facism [sic].

“For long, we have seen the damage caused by the ideology of white supremacy. We have seen, and participated in, many decades of resistance to white supremacy. We, and others, will never stop fighting fascism and racism wherever it rears its head.”

The rest of the white supremacist website, however, appeared to function normally.

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First Scientology wedding in UK to be streamed live on internet

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The most important thing you’ll see today: Internet censorship world map

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:08:59 Hope you guys are ready for this... #popcorn. reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:12:02 doc.mil.ru is down, thanks to #Anonymous. reageer retweet

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YourAnonNews twitterde op dinsdag 04-03-2014 om 01:13:52 could keep on going... 50 .ml.ru sites are down, the whole list: http://t.co/xstyFDWTZ5 reageer retweet