Hacking

Anonymous and Team Poison, two of the biggest hacking groups, join forces for the operation Robin Hood (OpRobinHood). The plan is to take money from banks using stolen credit cards and bank details and donate that money to charities and movements. Most of the stolen money will be given back by banks to their customers and hackers are relying on that. Now everyone should be more careful with credit cards and bank details. Forces merging is called p0isAnon and the following video is their press release. I can’t say if I agree or disagree with them but I can understand why they are doing this.

A DDoS attack that targeted a Chinese e-commerce company lasted for a week. According to Prolexic this was the biggest attack launched so far, 3 times bigger than the second biggest. The attack had four waves and happened between November 5th and November 12th. The company will remember this attack on November 5th and not only V for Vendetta (“Remember remember the 5th of November”). The attack had a peak of 45Gbit/s which is more than the company can handle. The traffic can be translated to thousands of connections per second. Even though this was a huge attack I believe than soon we will have a bigger one.

Anonymous decided to take down the Muslim Brotherhood websites and they did. Anonymous hackers started their attacks and they will continue until Friday, November 18th 2011. They are attacking two websites, ikhwanonline.com and ikhwanweb.com. The Brotherhood said that attacks were coming from France, Slovakia, Germany and San Francisco (U.S.A). Attacks started with a range of 2000-6000 hits per second and later the attack escalated to 380.000 hits per second. Anonymous announced that both sites were down.

In the past few month we have seen Anonymous go against law enforcement, governments, companies and organizations but we never saw them messing with drug cartels. Well, now they do and to do such thing you need some very big balls. A member of Anonymous, who was taking part to a street protest, was kidnapped by Los Zetas. Los Zetas is a Mexican drug cartel and Mexican Anonymous is now demanding that they release him or else they will reveal identities, names and addresses of syndicate’s associates. In those associates are included politicians and corrupt police. Anonymous is not only threatens to reveal associates but also syndicate’s businesses. Anonymous is not just words, they already started revealing information about the cartel. They have also defaced the website of a politician that is suspected to have connections with Los Zetas. The website is still defaced now that I am writing this post with the message “es Zeta” which means “is Zeta”.