Kim Dotcom - Megaupload Founder Released On Bail

Kim Dotcom - Megaupload Founder Released On Bail 

Kim Dotcom Founder of one of the most popular file shearing websites Megaupload finally released on bail. Due to lack of money judge grant his bail on Wednesday. He was arrested for violating anti piracy act. Last month, U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload's websites and announced indictments against Dotcom and six other people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an "international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works." All these stuffs took place as an output of the recently issued Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). They say Megaupload generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships. The New Zealand police arrested Dotcom, a German citizen who has residency in New Zealand and Hong Kong, and the other three at the U.S. government's request. 

Hactivist Anonymous performed massive cyber attack (Claimed one of the largest attack ever) while protesting against Megaupload shutdown issue. They have declared operation Megaupload and engaged cyber attack to DOJ, FBI, & many other fedral authorities websites & Govt websites. But Megaupload's lawyers have denied the charges which online hacktivist have rallied to the site's defense.

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Brazil Govt. Again Under Cyber Attack By Anonymous (#OpMegaupload)

Brazil Govt. Again Under Cyber Attack By Anonymous (#OpMegaupload)

Brazil govt is facing massive cyber attack. Guess who is behind this, yes you are absolutely right its Hacktivist Anonymous again. Operation Megaupload (#OpMegaupload) continues. In this attack they have bring down many Govt sites of Brazil including Portal Brasil, BOA VISTA ONLINE, Senado Federal, City Of South Flor da Serra, Good Fishing - Sports & Adventure, E-GOVERNANCE, City of St. John d'Alliance, Prefecture Tabapuã, Mikrocenter | Provider Access Internet Via Radio and so on. According to the twitter account of Anonymous & Anon Leader Sabu there are mainly 2 guys conducting this cyber attack & they are Havittaja and hard AnonymousBr.

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. 

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Anonymous Hit Brazil Govt. #OpMegaupload Continues

 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 

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CBS TV Network Hacked By Anonymous (#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. 

Today another hacker group named Underground Nazi also contributed in #OpMegaupload while hacking into the official website of UFC.

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Teen Hacker "Cosmo the God" of Underground Nazi Sentenced 6 Yrs Internet Ban By California Court

Teen Hacker "Cosmo the God" of Underground Nazi Sentenced 6 Yrs Internet Ban By California Court

A teenager hacker from an infamous hacker collective group named Underground Nazi faced Internet ban. On Wednesday the 15 years old hacker known as "Cosmo" or "Cosmo the God" was sentenced in juvenile court in Long Beach, California. According to sources, Cosmo pleaded guilty to multiple felonies in exchange for a probation, encompassing all the charges brought against him, which included charges based on credit card fraud, identity theft, bomb threats, and online impersonation. 

This newly formed hacker group Underground Nazi had taken the spot light in January this year, when they hacked UFC.com (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Later they involved them selves in mass protest against controversial privacy act SOPA & PIPA. The protest was dubbed Operation Megaupload (#OpMegaupload), where hacktivist Anonymous  along with hackers around the globe stand together against the take down of Megaupload.com. In the middle of 2012 Cosmo was also responsible for Twitter outage, where Cosmo along with few other UG Nazi members performed massive denial of service attack to interrupt the service of Twitter. Also it has been found that, Cosmo pioneered social-engineering techniques that allowed him to gain access to user accounts at Amazon, PayPal, and a slew of other companies. He was arrested in June during a part of a multi-state FBI sting. 

Representatives from both the Long Beach district attorney and public defenders offices refused to comment on the case, given Cosmo’s status as a juvenile. However, according to Cosmo, the terms of the plea place him on probation until his 21st birthday. During that time, he cannot use the internet without prior consent from his parole officer. Nor will he be allowed to use the Internet in an unsupervised manner, or for any purposes other than education-related ones. He is required to hand over all of his account logins and passwords. He must disclose in writing any devices that he has access to that have the capability to connect to a network. He is prohibited from having contact with any members or associates of UG Nazi or Anonymous, along with a specified list of other individuals. He had to forfeit all the computers and other items seized in the raid on his home. Also, according to Cosmo, violating any of these terms will result in a three-year prison term. The probationary period lasting until age 21 is standard, but other terms were more surprising.

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Anonymous Threatened To Bring-down Entire Internet By Attacking DNS

Anonymous Threatened  To Bring-down Entire Internet By Attacking DNS

Infamous Anonymous has threatened  to bring down a substantial portion of the entire Internet by attacking the domain name system (DNS) on March 31, 2012. The attack will be part of protest of FBI recent movement of arresting key members of Lulz & Anon as well as the group confirmed that not only this issue but also the attack has a solid relation over the recent take down of the file-sharing website Megaupload. In short it will be the second phase of Operation Megaupload (#OpMegaupload). You can say its a tit for tat by Anonymous. For your reminder FBI also vows to shutdown the DNSChanger name servers on the 8th of this month.

Anonymous members most likely will employ a relatively little-known technique called DNS amplification, which cleverly tricks mis-configured DNS servers into spewing out torrents of useless data that in turn cause other DNS servers to add to the chaos by producing even more useless data that overwhelms limited traffic-handling capacity. Theoretically, the cascade of out-of-control servers could swamp the ability of the Internet to cope, causing millions of websites to seemingly disappear. The financial fallout from being unable to gain access to the websites of online retailers, banks and other institutions could be enormous. Though experts seriously doubt that Anonymous or another group can credibly reduce the Internet to shambles in the near future, but the longer-term outlook is dimmer.

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Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked

Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army [#twithackery]

Yet again CBS one of the major commercial broadcasting television network of United States faced cyber attack. First it was hacker collective Anonymous who targeted CBS and managed to hack the TV network of CBS in January last year. The attack was done under the banner of Operation Megaupload. And now CBS have fallen victim of what it called twithackery, where hacker managed to gain temporary access of popular twitter accounts and broadcast fake tweets. This Sunday such twithackery targeted and compromised several twitter account of CBS. Infamous hacker community going by the name of Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have hijacked the twitter accounts of CBS, the list of the hijacked accounts include "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours" which is maintained by CBS news program. Later it has been reported that another twitter account @CBSDenver has also been hacked, during this ongoing cyber attack. CBS acknowledged the whole phenomena and later a CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. "PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve." - said the CBS spokesman. Another message from CBS said, "A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60Minutes or its staff."

Here is the list of those fake tweets came from the hijacked accounts of CBS:- 

From @60Minutes account we got the following message -

• "The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
• "The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
• "Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
• "Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast" 

Other messages claimed: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @SyrianCyberArmy" and suggested the action was in response to the suspension of the @Official_SEA account. Tweets sent out on the @48Hours account reportedly included: "General Dempsey calls for #Obama's arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours" As soon as the issue get spotted, CBS regain those hijacked accounts and immediately deleted those rouge messages. Later the two accounts @60Minutes and @48Hours has been suspended. 

While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before CBS. 

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Anonymous Tricked Their Supporter Into Installing Zeus Trojan - Said Symantec

Anonymous Tricked Their Supporter Into Installing Zeus Trojan - Said Symantec

Remember the Operation Megaupload (#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.

Now Security software company 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. According to the official blog post of Symantec on the 20th day of January after Kim Dotcom was arrested, Anonymous was frequently shearing few pastebin links which was containing the download link of Slowloris which led to a trojanized copy that installed the Zeus trojan on users' systems. The compromised download then replaced itself with a clean version of the tool to avoid detection. 

According To Norton Official Blog:- 

"It is worth highlighting how Anonymous supporters have been deceived into installing Zeus botnet clients purportedly for the purpose of DoS attacks. The Zeus client does perform DoS attacks, but it doesn’t stop there. It also steals the users' online banking credentials, webmail credentials, and cookies."
"When the Trojanized Slowloris tool is downloaded and executed by an Anonymous supporter, a Zeus (also known as Zbot) botnet client is installed. After installation of the Zeus botnet client, the malware dropper attempts to conceal the infection by replacing itself with the real Slowloris DoS tool. Zeus is an advanced malware program that cannot be easily removed. The Zeus client is being actively used to record and send financial banking credentials and webmail credentials to the botnet operator. Additionally, the botnet is being used to force participation in DoS attacks against Web pages known to be targets of Anonymous hacktivism campaigns."

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Anonymous Shutdown Greek Ministry of Justice

Greece Under Cyber Attack, Anonymous Bring Down The Website Of Greek Ministry of Justice 

After releasing the sensitive conference call now hacker collective group Anonymous has targeted the cyber fence of Greece. They have launched a cyber-attack on the Greek Ministry of Justice website, and warned of plans to target a further 300 ministry and media sites. The hack was apparently a protest against the Greek government's signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is designed to reduce internet piracy. 

"You have introduced a new dictatorship upon your people's shoulders and allowed the bankers and the monarchs of the EU to enslave them both economically and politically," the group's message said. "You have joined the IMF (International Monetary Fund) against your people's acquiescence…democracy was given birth in your country but now you have killed it," the hackers added.

In a message left on the Greek Justice Ministry's website, the group threatened to take down 'all the media in Greece' unless the Greek government retracts its support for the global treaty, which Britain has also signed. The website was briefly listed as 'under construction' following the attack, but was amended to display the following message from the online collective:
'We know EVERYTHING, We have your PASSWORDS , We are watching YOU.
NEXT TARGET WILL BE ALL THE MEDIA IN GREECE. ( ertTV , etc )
WE HAVE MOST OF THE MEDIA WEBSITES ADMIN PASSWORDS.
We are Legion . This is JUST the BEGINING.
www.ministryofjustice.gr is just an example of what we are capable of!
You have 2 weeks to stop ACTA in Greece otherwhise we will do CYBERWARFARE by defacing 300 sites and all the media and ministries.'

Greek police said via Twitter that their cyber-crime division had already begun an investigation into the Ministry of Justice attack. Few days ago for ACTA protest another hacktivist group Teamgreyhat has hacked more than 7K websites. Also in Operation Megaupload  Anonymous has performed massive cyber attack on federal authorities, Brazil Govt, US Govt, Ireland Govt, CBS and many more.

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Anonymous Hacker "Havittaja" Bring-down CIA & Department of Justice

Anonymous Hacker "Havittaja" Bring-down CIA & Department of Justice Website

Hacker from infamous Anonymous claimed to take down the official website of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) & Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Here also hackers followed their older tradition by engaging massive denial of service (DoS) attack to send the target offline. Due to large number of traffic CIA website was inaccessible for 45 mins. A Brazilian hacker code named "Havittaja" took responsibility of this attack by saying saying it was done for the "lulz", which refers to the popular online abbreviation "for laughs".

We have seen similar attack on CIA in last February, there also Anonymous took responsibility of that cyber attack and also claimed that this is yet another biggest denial of service attack of this year. We would also like to refresh your memory while saying not only Anonymous but also a hacker group named "CyberZeist" has revealed some classified information regarding the official website of CIA. He also exposed server details, DNS information, administrator login panel and so on. Even the hacker group leaked certain information about five undercover CIA agent's including real name, age, full postal address, banking details, credit card information, email-id & passwords. If you dig the history we will find that in 2011 Lulzsec hit CIA & SOCA with massive DDoS attack which immediately sent the website offline for a certain period of time.

If you talk about Department of Justice then we need to dig the 1st page of Operation Megaupload where hacktivist shutdown the official website of DOJ & FBI. 

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OnGuardOnline Of Federal Trade Commission(FTC) Hacked by #Antisec (#OpMegaupload)

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. 

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