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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Anonymous Bring down Ireland's Dept of Finance & Justice (#OpMegaupload, #OpIreland)
After Federal Authorities, US Govt, Brazil Govt now its time for Ireland. So here it come, Anonymous targeted the websites of Ireland's departments of finance and justice on Wednesday in a protest against government plans to block websites that violate copyright laws (SOPA/PIPA). Officials said both websites were taken off-line for a sudden time in the early hours of Wednesday in a denial of service attack (DoS), in which those sites were bombarded with a huge number of traffic. According to an Anon member @AnonOpsSwedenclaimed responsibility for the attack, posting a series of tweets overnight encouraging hackers to attack the two sites.
In A statement The Department of Justice said:-
Last night, the Department of Justice and Finance websites experienced a distributed denial of service attack. This is not an attempt to extract information from the website but is instead an attempt to stop access to a service.There seems to be no damage done to the website, however, a review is being conducted this morning. The situation continues to be monitored by the Department of Justice and the Department of Communication. Gardaí have been contacted on the matter. The Government is aware of the potential threat of this type of cyber attack and the Department of Communications is co-ordinating a whole of Government response to this threat, the Department added.
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.
Federal Trade CommissionServer Breached By Anonymous #Antisec (#ACTA Protest)
Hacker collective group Anonymous along with Antisec continues their protest against ACTA. This time the blown the Web server of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau and hacked the official website of U.S. Federal Trade Commission, consumer rights, & National Consumer Protection Week. Hacker released a note in pastebin where the have breached all the security of the FTC server, rooted the server & hacked into the database to expose user name, email-id, passwords and many other very sensitive data of the Govt. They have also written a note while addressing FTC -
"Dear Fuctarded Troglodyte Clusterfuck (FTC):
Congratuations! You got rooted and rm'd (AGAIN). U MAD!? Don't like it? Oh wait,
you want some lube? Ohhhh, you want MORE lube. (Well ok then, you silly bitch!)
So, how’s it feel when your entire site is jack-hammered off the internet? Do
tell!
Guess what? We’re back for round 2. Well, with the doomsday clock ticking down
on Internet freedom, Antisec has leapt into action. Again. Holy déjà vu hack
Batman! Expect us yet?
Hey FTC! Y u no ask Google to delay the privacy-violating changes to its terms
of service? Y u let Google combine user data without user consent? Y u collect 8
million Do Not Call List complaints online from bothered citizens, but u only
took action 83 times? Y u suck?
Even more bothersome than your complete lack of competence in maintaining your
own fucking websites and serving the citizens you are supposed to be protecting,
is the US federal government’s support of ACTA. You really want to empower
copyright holders to demand that users who violate IP rights (with no legal
process) have their Internet connections terminated? You really want to allow a
country with an oppressive Internet censorship regime to demand under the treaty
that an ISP in another country remove site content? Well, we have a critical
warning for you, and we suggest you read the next few paragraphs very, very
closely.
If ACTA is signed by all participating negotiating countries, you can rest
assured that Antisec will bring a fucking mega-uber-awesome war that rain
torrential hellfire down on all enemies of free speech, privacy and internet
freedom. We will systematically knock all evil corporations and governments off
of our internet.
And just think, as you’re reading this statement, we are already sailing into
new waters with our allied shiny epic lulzfleet. Don’t fret, we’ve already
prepared treasure chests of stolen booty, diamonds and pizzas for our next raid.
We are s(h)itting on hundreds of rooted servers getting ready to drop all your
mysql dumps, child pr0n and mail spools (to be honest, fucking too much for us
to read on our own, so we swap with all criminal underground allies for sex and
0days). Oh wait, what’s that? Your passwords? Addresses? Your precious bank
accounts? Even your online dating details?! (yep, We know you're cheating on
your…well, we won’t get into that here. Yet.)
Yep, we know all about you. All of your little secrets will be laid bare for the
world to see. So, how does it feel to be the one spied on?
Oh, eat cock now. Kthxbai. :D"
Later in an official statement FTC spokesperson Cecelia Prewett said "The Bureau of Consumer Protection’s Business Center website and the partnership site NCPW run by the Federal Trade Commission were hacked earlier today, The FTC takes these malicious acts seriously. The sites have been taken down and will be brought back up when we’re satisfied that any vulnerability has been addressed."
Earlier for #OpMegauploadhackers from Antisec has hacked the official site of OnGuardOnline Of Federal Trade Commission(FTC) and breached the database. That attack was a part of protest against censorship (SOPA/PIPA/ACTA)
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."
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.
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.
"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."
Hackers Claimed - Google Under Cyber Attack (i-Google Server Down) [#OpArmenianGenocide]
Few days ago Anonymous called Operation Armenian Genocide later another hacker group named Teamgreyhat has hacked more than 7K websites for this protest. But its not enough now hackers from Kosova Hackers Security and Teamgreyhat in association with hackers from Anonymous performed a DNS Distributed Denial of Service attack of i-Google Ireland on the 4th February. The hackers have claimed that they have hacked into a network of iGoogle , making it the most successful cyber attack. The Google Webmaster responded to the attack by shutting down part of its computer system from the office of Thomas Masood, the Google Defense Secretary. The network was taken down for over a week in order to determine the points of weakness.
It's been noted that hackers from various locations in Kosova, Albania, India, Portugal, Brazil and so on have spent months probing the Google system, and unfortunately succeeded in finding a vulnerability. The attackers also took responsibility to collapse the maximum bandwidth of i-google and later sent it offline for some time. Earlier hackers form KHS and TGH performed such similar attack on Hotmail and they sent the mail server offline for a log time.
Press Release By The Hacker:-
"Greeting World All you are aware of how cruel your Govt is behaving with us…… it’s been a decade past but still common people are suffering. Our question is what democracy we have achieved??? Still the fuckers are ruling the humanity and they have made the entire system a crap. I want to ask everyone, how much longer are we gonna let our governments control us? How many freedoms will have to be removed before we realize that this is not how man is supposed to live. And how much longer will we let our governments operate behind closed doors? The idea of a Government by the people for the people has died out and its time we fought for its resurrection Earlier we have raise our voice against injustice, inhumanity while blowing 12K websites all over the world for free education and free health to all our brothers and sister world wide. Later we again vows against ACTA and then 7K sites get penetrated by TGH But did we do a lot??? No not at all. Again we are standing against injustice, cruelty & inhumanity. the govt wants to censor the entire WWW. So we decide yet again to stop them. As a result on the 4th February 2012 we sent offline i-Google from the WWW. #OpArmenianGenocide Engaged #OpMegaupload Engaged #OpFreeEducation Free Health Engaged
We are KHS We are TGH We are Warriors We are Achilles of Cyber World we do not forgive. we do not forget. to the governments of the world. you should have expected us. "
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.
Anonymous Threatened To Bring-downEntire 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.
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.
VOGH Review:-
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.
