OnGuardOnline Of Federal Trade Commission(FTC) Hacked by #Antisec (#OpMegaupload)
#OpMegaupload continues OnGuardOnline partner of fourteen federal agencies managed by the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) hacked by #Antisec. Not only defacement but also #Antisec hackers have breached the entire database and exposed credentials of the users including username, email-id, password hash and so on. Hackers also rooted the OnGuardOnline web-server and still the server is down. More information & to see the release of #Antisec click here.
Now it really seems that the decision of closing Megaupload.com is causing a lost for Federal Authorities. Few days ago Hacktivist Anonymous started #OpMegaupload and bring down US Dept. Of Justice, FBI and some other federal authorities website. Then the attacked was moved to Brazil Govt. and there Anon shut down websites of Brazil's federal district, Tangara da Serra city & the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes.Not only Anonymous its about the mass. The whole world contributed in this operation. Statistic is saying that more than 66,500 people from different part of the world have downloaded LOIC and taken part in #OpMegaupload. And this attack was considered as the "Largest Attack Ever". Not only these but also Anonymous hit CBS broadcasting in that attack they have gained full access on the CBS server and deleted everything. Also another hacker group named Underground Nazi also contributed in #OpMegaupload while hacking into the official website of UFC.
UFC.com (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Hacked By Underground Nazi
The official website of UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) was hacked. The main object behind this attack was to protest against SOPA and PIPA. Sometime around 5pm EST the UFC homepage was taken over by a group identifying themselves as the “Underground Nazi H4ck3rGr0up”. The splash page featured a bizarre anime-style sketch of Adolf Hitler with the names of the guilty parties. Hackers said UFC publicly supporting SOPA and PIPA so they have launched this attack.
The above tweet came from the hacker which is clearly saying that this attack is a part of ongoing #SOPABlackout protest. Few days ago the Federal Authorities have shutdown Megaupload.com. In return hacktivist Anonymous started #OpMegaupload&bring down US Dept. Of Justice, FBI & many other federal authorities sites. Later Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city. Also yesterday we have given a statistic where it was clearly shown that more than 66,500 people from different part of the world have downloaded LOIC and taken part in #OpMegaupload. And again this attack from Underground Nazi H4ck3rGr0up will surely enhance the #OpMegaupload.
CBS TV Network Hacked By Anonymous (#OpMegaupload)
Operation Megaupload is going higher and higher. 1st Anonymous bring down US Dept. Of Justice, FBI and some other federal authorities website. Then the attacked was moved to Brazil Govt. and there Anon shut down websites of Brazil's federal district, Tangara da Serra city & the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes.Not only Anonymous its about the mass. The whole world contributed in this operation. Statistic is saying that more than 66,500 people from different part of the world have downloaded LOIC and taken part in #OpMegaupload. And this attack was considered as the "Largest Attack Ever".
Now anonymous targeted CBS Broadcasting completely knocked out CBS.com and are continuing their revenge spree. The CBS takedown wasn't your regular DDoS attack because if you went to CBS.com at the time Anon attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. Basically, Anonymous gained access to CBS.com and deleted everything. As shown in the figure below.
Earlier this week Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. We also like to give you remember that this operation started because Federal Authority has shutdown megaupload and in payback Anon bring down US Dept. Of Justice, FBI & many other federal authorities sites. Anonymous hit CBS broadcasting in that attack they have gained full access on the CBS server and deleted everything. Also another hacker group named Underground Nazi also contributed in #OpMegaupload while hacking into the official website of UFC. Then the turn of #Antisec came and they have hacked U.S. Government IT Security Website OnGuardOnline. We must have say that #OpMegaupload is one of the biggest and continues operation ever took place in the cyber space where the whole world has contributed. The main object of this operation is to protest SOPA and PIPA bills. In this protest Federal Authorities, Many Govt bodies and other very important and high profile sites who ware supporting SOPA have been damaged very badly.
Anonymous Hit Brazil Govt. #OpMegaupload Continues
Operation Megaupload (#OpMegaupload) continues. This operation was started by Hacktivist Anonymous while protesting against the shutting down of Web’s most popular site Megaupload By Federal authorities. In the 1st payback Anon bring down US Dept. Of Justice, FBI & many other federal authorities sites. And that attack was considered as the "Largest Attack Ever" where 5,635 Anon people bring down the websites of Universal Music, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Recording Industry Association of America while using one of the world's most popular and vastly used DDoSer LOIC.
But yet its not over Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. Anonymous posted messages on Twitter describing attacks against hundreds of Brazilian sites that share the URL 'df.gov.br,' which are owned by the government of the federal capital in Rio de Janeiro. The Federal District press office denied Saturday that the hackers succeeded in shutting down the websites. The hackers did succeed in shutting down the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes. They posted the image of a grim-faced joker with a message saying, "If Megaupload is down, you are down too."
In a statistic it is found that Since Last week more than 66,500 people from different part of the world have downloaded LOIC and taken part in #OpMegaupload
Federal authorities shut down one of the Web’s most popular sites Thursday on charges that it illegally shared movies, television shows, e-books and so on. In the payback hacktvist Anonymous called #OpMegaupload performed "The Largest Attack Ever" where 5,635 Anon people bring down the websites of Universal Music, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Recording Industry Association of America while using one of the world's most popular and vastly used DDoSer LOIC.
"The government takes down Megaupload? 15 minutes later Anonymous takes down government and record label sites," Tweeted by Anonymous. That note was followed shortly by this one: "Megaupload was taken down w/out SOPA being law. Now imagine what will happen if it passes. The Internet as we know it will end. FIGHT BACK." The tweet referred to the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet piracy bill being considered in the U.S. Congress.
Detailing the attacks, which are being dubbed as the largest performed by the group, via numerous Twitter feeds, @YourAnonNews said: "You cannot censor the internet. You cannot subpoena a hashtag. You cannot arrest an idea. You CAN expect us #OpMegaupload"
The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). When activated, LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic. Judging from a Twitter search, the link is being shared at a rate of about 4 times a minute, mostly by Spanish-speaking users, for some reason. (Here's a link to the Twitter search, just don't click the PasteHTML link.)
The thing is, DDoSing is a criminal offense that could earn you 10 years in prison, if you do it intentionally. With previous versions of LOIC, participants had to acknowledge this risk and press a button labeled "fire." But now, it appears some enterprising anonymous member has retooled it so that it automatically fires if you click an unassuming link and leave a window open.
Megaupload.com distributed a variety of digital content, including music and movies. Investigators say Megaupload’s executives made more than $175 million through subscription fees and online ads while robbing authors, movie producers, musicians and other copyright holders of more than $500 million. “This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States,” the Justice Department and FBI said in a statement.
On Thursday, the U.S. DOJ announced that it had charged seven people who allegedly were affiliated with the site with running an organized criminal enterprise responsible for worldwide online piracy of copyrighted content. The DOJ worked with authorities in New Zealand, who arrested four of the seven people.
"Twitter - @AnonymousWiki January 19th, 2012 Popular file-sharing website megaupload.com gets shutdown by U.S Justice - FBI and charged its founder with violating piracy laws. Four Megaupload members were also arrested. The FBI released a press release on its website which you can view here: http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/justice-department-charges-leaders-of-megaupload-with-widespread-online-copyright-infringement We Anonymous are launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz. The FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They should have expected us. #OpMegaupload The following sites were taken down in response to the FBI shutting down megaupload.com :) TANGO DOWN
Anonymous Take Down CIA- Central Intelligence Agency Website
The official website of CIA- Central Intelligence Agency faced massive cyber attack on the last Friday. Hacktivist Anonymous took responsibility if the cyber attack. At approximately 3:10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. #UMAD?#Anonymous." And also claimed that this is yet another biggest denial of service attack of this year. This attack was the part of Anon's traditional #FuckFriday boom. The last Friday Anonymous released sensitive conference call between FBI & Scotland Yard. Earlier for #OpMegaupload they have bring down Federal Authorities, US Govt, Brazil Govt, Ireland's Dept of Finance & Justice, CBS TV Network, UFC.com and many more.
AnonymousVows To Shutdown CNN.com (#OpDebateBlackout)
The protest against Internet censorship by Anonymous continues. Now they have called another operation named #OpDebateBlackout. According to a YouTube video Anon vows to shutdown famous media CNN during yesterday night debate. Anon said:- "Shut down CNN.com during the Florida debate. In response to the establishment media blackout of Ron Paul, and specifically to the lack of equal time given to him in the debates, we the people will be blacking out the responses of all candidates except Ron Paul in the upcoming CNN debate in Jacksonville Florida on Thursday, January 26 at 8PM eastern standard time. This is a call to all who are willing and able to join this effort to show the establishment media that we will not tolerate the continued media blackout of Ron Paul, and that we will, in return, shut down the cnn website and their live stream of the debate."
7 Thousand Websites Hacked By Teamgreyhat (Protest Against #ACTA)
After two big blow, CDRI & 12K sites hacking now Hacktivist group Teamgreyhat decided to stand against controversial act ACTA. As a result TGH has hacked more than 7K websites world wide. According to the press release by the hacker group they have claimed that the aim of this massive attack was to protest against Censorship & ATCA. They have also mentioned that they are rising their voice for #OpArmenianGenocide & #OpMegaupload in association with Anonymous. The list of all the hacked sites can be found a pastebin release by the hacker group.
#OpIreland- Department Of Foreign Affairs Ireland Hacked By Anonymous
Protest against controversial act called SOPA, PIPA & ACTA continues. Anonymous hackers from Sweden stated a campaign named "#OpIreland" and mounted DDoS attacks against the websites of the aforementioned politician and junior minister Seán Sherlock, and the Departments of Finance and Justice last week, and sent them offline for certain time. Last night this hacker group turned their sights towards a number of websites tun by the Department of Foreign Affairs, but this time they took it upon themselves to do more damage. As a result the have breached the security and stolen senstivie data such as Full Name, Email-id, Password. All the leaks are posted on a pastebin release by the hacker group. In a twitter release @AnonOpsSweden took responsibility of this security breach.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the breach but said that other servers belonging to the Department were not compromised. The Irish Aid website is still down as the Department's IT specialists are investigating the matter.
AnonOps- Anonymous-OS Is Fake & Wrapped In Trojans (Anonymous Vs. Anonymous)
Yesterday we cover the release of Anonymous-OS, which was claimed to be the first Operating System made by hacker collective Anonymous. But now we are facing a complete different scenario. After the release of the OS one of the so called official twitter account of Anon tweeted about the OS "The Anon OS is fake it is wrapped in trojans". From this tweet the controversy begins which takes two direction, one saying Anonymous did not release their own operating system and other saying the OS have certain backdoors, malware & trojan installed. In a SourceForge project page this Anonymous-OS was first made available but later the SourceForge Authority said that they have removed the page and also the distribution from their server as significant concerns were raised concerning the software bundle's authenticity and possible maliciousness. According to their official blog post :-
Yesterday we starting hearing some buzz about a new project called “Anonymous-OS” - people claiming that it was not affiliated in any way with the group referring to itself as “Anonymous". We looked at the project, and decided that although the name of the project was misleading (we see no evidence that it is connected with Anonymous) it appeared, on initial glance, to be a security-related operating system, with, perhaps, an attack-oriented emphasis. We have, in the past, taken a consistent stance on “controversial” projects - that is, we don’t pass judgement based on what’s possible with a product, but rather consider it to be amoral - neither good nor bad - until someone chooses to take action with it.
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Anonymous-OS was based on Ubuntu 11.10 with number of hacking tools like HOIC, Sqlmap, Havij, Zenmap & so on. Basically the OS was represented to be a pentest distro. But just after the time of release a controversy came while saying - is the OS safe? In this issue the previous track record of Anonymous was not good. Remember few days ago in a report Symantec have discovered that a piece of Anonymous-recommended DDoS software called Slowloris contained an insidious Trojan that was stealing financial info from people using it. In #OpMegaupload, the largest attack ever where 5,635 Anon people bring down the websites of Universal Music, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Recording Industry Association of America while using one of the world's most popular and vastly used DDoSer LOIC. But in reality thousands of people has been tricked by Anon in the named of cause and justice. Here again the history repeated. In the so it's Anon Vs. Anon.
