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Anonymous deface UK Police forum and Dating Portal

Yesterday Anonymous deface the UK Police Online web forum () and stole the private emails addresses of various members. The Metropolitan Police’s e-Crime unit is investigating the hack and said that no computer system run by the police force had been hacked.

The Hack was originally announced by an Anonymous Twitter account – Operation Jubilee (OpJubilee), they post a mirror url of defaced page. This hack was one of the part of OpJubilee.

ANONYMOUS OPERATION JUBILEE: Under this there will be Rally of Millions people To Parliament, London on 5th of November 2012. As planned this will be a peaceful gathering at the Parliament Building in London to declare the true jubilee.
Hackers send out emails to the former officers whose details were obtained during hack, with a subject line: “A message to the police and armed forces”.

Message body: “Hello members of our UK police and armed forces” and called for recipients to “stand with us, not against us. Under your uniform you are one of us and we are you. United we stand and can make this world a better place for all of us. We are not against you, only against the evil system that you defend, and we appeal to your consciences to stop protecting the traitors and banksters, and protect us from them instead.”

The hacktivists have previously been linked with compromised security on police websites in the US and other countries. They end the mail with, “Brothers in arms, join us and end wars and poverty. United we stand.”

This online forum actually include, a discussion board on homepage, Police Dating site, Gallery, Downloads and a police equipment estore.

MET police said, “It would appear that a third party forum has been compromised and personal email details retrieved,”. Before under Operation Jubilee, Hackers deface some other UK police forums also.

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October 25, 2012
Anonymous takes down security firm’s website, vows to fight on after arrests

Panda Security says hack of PandaLabs did not breach company’s internal network

By Jaikumar Vijayan

Computerworld – Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking collective early Wednesday defaced Panda Security’s PandaLabs website in apparent response to the arrests of five hackers Tuesday in the U.K. and the U.S.

In a characteristically defiant message posted on PandaLabs’ hacked homepage, Anonymous taunted the former LulzSec leader Sabu for helping the FBI nab the hackers, and vowed to carry on its hactivist campaign regardless of the setback.

“We are Antisec we’ll fight till the end,” the message noted. “To FBI and other s…. come at us bros we are waiting for you,” it noted. The message was preceded by a seven-minute video clip set to the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” that appeared to recap Anonymous’ activities over the past year.

The attackers also posted what seemed to be the login credentials of numerous Panda Labs employees on the defaced homepage. They noted that the attack on the security firm’s site was in retaliation for Panda’s alleged role in helping law enforcement crack down on members of the hacking collective.

“They helped to jail 25 anonymous in different countries and they were actively participating in our IRC channels trying to dox many others,” the attackers said in apparent reference to a series of arrests of Anonymous members last year. “Yep we know about you. How does it feels being the spied one?” the message asked.

In an emailed statement, a Panda Security spokeswoman said the hackers had obtained access to a Panda Security webserver that was hosted outside of Panda’s internal network. This server was used only for marketing campaigns and to host company blogs, it said. “Neither the main website www.pandasecurity.com nor www.cloudantivirus.com were affected in the attack,” the statement said.

“The attack did not breach Panda Security’s internal network and neither source code, update servers nor customer data was accessed. The only information accessed was related to marketing campaigns such as landing pages and some obsolete credentials, including supposed credentials for employees that have not been working at Panda for over five years,” the company said.

Screenshot of the Pandalabs hack.

www.computerworld.com, 7 March 2012

March 8, 2012
Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site

By Chloe Albanesius

Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.

“CIA TANGO DOWN: #Anonymous,” the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.

The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down its targets.

Last month, in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown, Anonymous also took down the websites for the Department of Justice, the Copyright Office, and the FBI.

Just last week, meanwhile, it also leaked a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which agents discussed ongoing hacker cases. Anonymous reportedly accessed the call because a foreign police official who received the conference call invite forwarded it to a personal account, where it was intercepted by Anonymous.

This week, the hacker collective focused its attention on overseas issues. It leaked emails from the office of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which included prep material for a recent Barbara Walters interview. It also released emails from the legal team who represented Frank Wuterich, the U.S. staff sergeant who led an assault on the Iraqi city of Haditha that left 24 unarmed civilians dead.

Also this week, a hacker loosely affiliated with Anonymous posted code from security firm Symantec on The Pirate Bay. The hacker had reportedly demanded a $50,000 ransom in exchange for keeping the code offline, but negotiations broke down.

www.pcmag.com, February 10, 2012

February 11, 2012
Anonymous Message to The State of Israel

February 10, 2012
Twitter.com Taken Down By “Anonymous” Hacker Group Or Clandestine DOJ Conspiracy?

Hacker collective “Anonymous” continues to strike at sites around the Web in retaliation for the government shuttering Megaupload.com, and today the notorious group briefly took down Twitter.com’s homepage according to numerous social media sites while other sources complain of a “government ploy” to disrupt the hacker group’s twitter accounts.

The “government ploy” circulating on Facebook and Google+ alleges that the U.S. Department of Justice has shutdown Twitter to stop the spread of several attacks by Anonymous who utilize numerous affiliated Twitter accounts to publicize and expand their exploits.

Anonymous has a long history of attacking government and business websites, and on Thursday the organization intermittently shut down the Department of Justice and Universal Music‘s websites. The collective said through various channels that it was retaliating for the shut down of popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com. Anonymous also recently made headlines for hacking into Stratfor’s website and database, stealing credit card information and other sensitive details.

According to SM sources; Twitter.com was taken down in a rather unusual manner Sunday afternoon after CBS.com’s homepage was taken down by Anonymous. As Gizmodo points out, the CBS takedown wasn’t a standard distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack because the CBS homepage only showed an index page with a single file. That suggests that whoever hacked the site deleted everything on it.

The CBS site was down for about 20 minutes, according to the @YourAnonNews Twitter account, an official broadcast channel for Anonymous. Showing its global reach, Anonymous is also apparently attacking several Brazilian websites today as well, including the websites of Brazil’s federal district and Tangara da Serra city. Quite a way to retaliate for Megaupload.

The Department of Justice indictment against Megaupload alleges that it is connected to a vast criminal enterprise has caused more than $500 million in harm to copyright owners. If convicted, the company and its executives could forfeit $175 million in assets, including 15 Mercedes, a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Rolls-Royce with the license plate “GOD,” and a huge pile of computers and large-screen TVs. Four people, including Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, were arrested Thursday in New Zealand, and three others named in the indictment are unaccounted for.

The Twitter.com site was back up as of 4:50 PM EST with several “Anonymous” user related accounts deleted; but then suddenly went back down for a short period again at 4:55 PM EST.

It has since resumed normal operations.

“Anonymous” official news website: YourAnonNews.tumblr.com

newsrace.com, 22.01.2012

January 23, 2012
Hackers group Anonymous warns of New Years Eve leak

In the latest information breach in retaliation for the prosecution of Bradley Manning, Anonymous releases more data from intelligence analysis firm, Stratfor, and issues a New Years Eve warning.

“On this date, we will be launching our contributions to project mayhem by attacking multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast.”

Anonymous

Members of the activist hackers group, Anonymous, calling themselves ‘Antisec’, posted links on the internet to what they said were 75,000 names, addresses, credit card numbers and passwords for Stratfor clients.

Antisec also said that it revealed another 860,000 user names, email addresses and passwords for those registered to Stratfor, using the data-sharing website Pastebin, and that 50,000 of the email addresses end in .mil and .gov, which are used by the US government.

Security think tank, Stratfor, gathers intelligence and provides reports on international security and threats to government and private sector security.

Anonymous hacked into Stratfor’s company data on Christmas Eve, and published what it said was Stratfor’s confidential client which included top security contractors, major technology firms and law enforcement agencies. Reuters news agency reported that the list includes US Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former CIA director Jim Woolsey. Corporations on the list include Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

The hacker collective also used the stolen credit card details to make donations to charities and posted images of the receipts online.

Antisec said the latest attack is retaliation for the prosecution of US Army private Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking more than 700,000 US documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

New Years Eve threat

Antisec is now drip feeding information obtained during the security breach. In an internet statement, the group said it warned of another leak on New Year’s Eve as well as what it called “noise demonstrations” outside jails and prisons, presumably to show support of convicted hackers: “On this date, we will be launching our contributions to project mayhem by attacking multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast.”

A spokesperson said via Twitter that soon to be released emails from the company would show “Stratfor is not the ‘harmless company’ it tries to paint itself as.”

Jeffrey Carr, chief executive of Taia Global Inc and author of the book Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld, warned that future leaks could contain crucial information. “Those emails are going to be dynamite and may provide a lot of useful information to adversaries of the U.S. government,” he told Reuters. However the Pentagon said it was not threatened by the attack.

Stratfor website down

Anonymous said it was able to access the information partly because Stratfor did not encrypt it – something that could be a major source of embarrassment for the intelligence firm.

The Stratfor website has been offline for almost a week since it came under attack almost a week ago. Since then, the company has been communicating through its Facebook page and sending its analysis to members via email.

In a statement, Stratfor said it “regrets the latest disclosure of information obtained illegally from the company’s data systems,” which included “credit card information of paid subscribers and many email addresses of those who receive Stratfor’s free services”.

Anonymous has launched a series of hacking attacks over the last year against companies that it perceives to be enemies of the anti-secrecy site, WikiLeaks.

www.channel4.com, 31 December 2011

December 31, 2011