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

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/12/2012 06:38:00 am

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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Leaked FBI Documents is Calling "Anonymous is A National Security Threat"

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/17/2011 02:42:00 pm


According to a PDF containing what purports to be a leaked psychological assessment of the leaders of LulzSec and Anonymous by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (which also profiles serial killers), Anonymous is not only not a collection of individuals, it's a coherent group that poses a threat to national security.
Neither the FBI nor Dept. of Homeland Security have commented on the "leak," which may be a fake according to the TechHerald, but seems to reflect accurately the thinking behind a series of DHS warning bulletins and crackdowns that have resulted in 75 raids and 16 arrests of Anonymous members just this year.
Anons themselves refer to the group as a rough, almost coincidental collective of individuals that occasionally cooperate on projects to protest specific things. There are approximately eight vortices of special interest within the collective, according to interviews, postings and counter-arguments posted by various Anonymi in response to invective by those it attacked.
Attacks are the work of small groups of interested individuals who, on their own initiative and using public argument as their weapon, gather like-minded Anonymi to protest governmental outrages or attack injustice in whatever form they find it, according to de facto leaders in the non-existent but vocal #OPpublicrelations.
In March, for example, members of Anonymous and 4Chan debated, in the finest traditions of American Democracy and citizen activism, whether to attack and defeat the Internet scourge that is Rebecca Black – the annoying but harmless pop "singer" whose made herself famous with a mom-and-dad-funded music video on YouTube that repeated the same lyrics so often it became apparent those might be the only words she knows.(Other, less world-shaking Anonymous projects resulted in significant attacks against the embattled governments of Egypt and Syria, the exposure of government atrocities in Bolivia, civil protest against censorship on the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, attacks on Visa, Mastercard and Paypal in support of whistleblower site WikiLeaks and a long-simmering, high-profile protest against unrestricted greed, corrosive dishonesty of Wall Street and the and economic destruction from which the rest of the country suffers while financiers continues to prosper.)
The FBI has analyzed various instant messages, forum postings, emails, Twitter posts and other documentation and decided Anonymous behaves more like a coherent organization led by a small number of powerful and focused activists, not a politically involved group of individuals using the Anonymous banner as gathering point.
  • "The Anonymous ‘collective’ has risen from an amorphous group of individuals on the Internet to the current state of a potential threat to national security. Due to the nature of Anonymous, they believe that they are a leaderless collective. However, it has been shown that there is a defined leadership group," the document reads.

  • "A thorough assessment of each UNSUB’s online activities, speech patterns, and general writings was collected by the FBI. Each UNSUB was individually assessed by members of the SBU (sic) and a psychological profile created from these datasets."

  • Most of the members of Anonymous are under 30, but the bulk of its leadership are not teenage hacker/script-kids as many portray themselves, according to the FBI.

  • "It is likely" that Sabu, one of the more vocal spokestrolls for the LulzSec mini-collective of Anonymous, "works in the information security sector and has been doing so since the early days of the internet and hacking activities. His use of net speak is interspersed with proper American English diction and grammar that implies he is an American citizen and has been educated,” the FBI notes said.

BS, quoth the Anon:

"Anonymous is not a group, it does not have leaders, people can do ANYTHING under the flag of their country," according to one member in an email interview with the AP. "Anything can be a threat to National Security, really," the member said in an email interview. "Any hacker group can be."
If the document is real, it ends on a disturbingly dangerous and presumptive conclusion: that attacks and protests by Anonymous will eventually lead to the death of members of Anonymous, law enforcement or the public that will drive many supporters away from Anonymous.
Until then, Anonymous, whether collectively or individually, may be unstoppable in practical terms.

The overall assessment for the movement however is the following:

1. The movement is out of control and there seems to be no real coherent motivation
2. The leaders have begun to hide themselves a bit more due to arrests that have been made
3. Their reliance on technology will eventually be their downfall
4. Their interpersonal relationships are weak points, as such they should be leveraged
5. Their increasing attacks on infrastructure will eventually lead to serious results that could in fact lead to deaths

-News Source (IT World)


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VOGH Exclusive: Xbox Live Outage Caused For Networking Misconfiguration, Not Hacker Attack

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/18/2013 06:08:00 pm

Microsoft Said Xbox Live Outage Caused For Networking Misconfiguration During Routine Maintenance, Not Hacker Attack 

Xbox Live -one of the world's most popular and usually very reliable gaming network which rarely has unexpected outages, nor does Microsoft ever take it down for any extended period of time. But accident occurs, and it happened in last Sunday. The software giant and the developer of Xbox - Microsoft has reported a significant Xbox Live outage, rendering the service unavailable since earlier last 13th afternoon, smack in the middle of the peak weekend usage period. The outage is preventing users from signing in to Xbox Live, blocking access to the online services normally available through the console. While acknowledging the issue, on their official Xbox Live Status page Microsoft said “There is still an issue members are having signing in to Xbox LIVE, we greatly appreciate you sticking it out with us while we work as hard as we can to get this problem fixed. Keep checking back here every 30 minutes for another update on our progress.” This update came from Microsoft at 3:30 Pacific time on 13th of April. As soon as this story get spotted, several hikes rises. Among this buzz, it was a few unnamed hacker who took credit of the Xbox outage, while declaring that a cyber attack. Another buzz which just got spread so quickly, was that the outage of Xbox Live network has been caused by hacker collective Anonymous.  Here we must have to say that those buzz have some solid reasons as couple of months ago Windows Azure faced an organized cyber attack which effected the service of Azure storage, Xbox Live and 52 other. And that outage or in other word service interruption stays for 12 long hours. But unlike earlier, this time the issue get resolved immediately. Within one hour all the service get restored and came back to its normal order. On the same Xbox Live Status page Microsoft said “If you were one of the members who was having issues signing in to Xbox LIVE, good news! This issue has been fixed! Thank you so much for your patience during this time, feel free to go enjoy your favorite games and content!”
So far we have discussed about the story of the outage and it's restoration. Now we will talk about the cause of this interruption. As I have said earlier that the rumor of hacker's attack was there which was claiming responsibility of the Xbox Live outage. But in reality it was not due to cyber attack but some internal network problems. In their official respond of the situation and those buzz Microsoft completely dines all those rumors and said  "The Xbox Live service outage on 13 April resulted from networking misconfiguration during routine maintenance and was in no way related to false claims of hacking the service." 
While talking about Xbox outage, we would like to remind you that - another world famous gaming console 'PlayStation' had fallen victim to cyber attacks. It was Anonymous who hit Sony PSN and caused massive outage, data leak and many other devastating damages. 







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570+ Israeli Websites Hacked & Defaced By Hitcher of Muslim Liberation Army (#OpIsrael)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/19/2012 02:17:00 am

570+ Israeli Websites Hacked & Defaced By Hitcher of Muslim Liberation Army (#OpIsrael)

Couple of days ago Anonymous called Operation Israel while protesting against the brutal attack on Gaza. In the beginning Anonymous hacked the Israeli Defense Force and few other Israeli websites. But now its going bad to worse for Israel, as several hackers from different part of the world have taken part in this protest. It was the well known Pakistani hacker named Hitcher who rises his voice against injustice and inhumane, while defacing more than 570 Israeli websites. The hacker clearly stated the reason behind this attack and that is "The hack is done against the protest against Gaza attack by Israelis they are killing innocent children and women..." -said Hitcher. In the deface page the hacker also tried to gave message while saying "Gaza will never defeated, Israel will be defeated..." This attack of Hitcher was done under the banner of a very popular hacker collective group named Muslim Liberation Army also known as MLA. As expected the hacker has also created the deface mirror of those hacked sites, which can be found on th3mirror.com.  And also while talking about Hitcher and Israel, then we must have to remind you that few months ago Israel Ministry of Finance Unit (Lehava) & Amitec top IT innovative company of Israel was also hacked by Hitcher. Those hack was also driven by the case of Free Palestine. 





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Anonymous Threatens Israel to Erase From The Internet (#OpIsrael)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/20/2013 04:10:00 am

Anonymous Threatens Israel to Erase From The Internet (#OpIsrael)
Infamous hacker collective group Anonymous along with some organized hacker communities together started a massive rampage against Israeli cyber space. The hacker group threatened Israel government while  planning to engage a massive cyber-attack on Israel, saying that, they will "erase" the country from the Internet. From some legitimate sources it has been confirmed that the hackers are planning to execute the attack on 7th of April. One of the twitter account of Anonymous also confirmed the date and timing, while saying "Hacktivists Starting Cyber Attack against Israel on 7th of April." Also twitter feed of Anonymous invited numerous hackers communities around the world to join up for the cyber rampage dubbed Operation  Israel Phase 2 (#OpIsrael). On the other hand Israel government took the threat seriously and taking almost every steps to avoid any kind of disaster. Ofir Ben Avi, director of online group Accessible Government of Israel told the media -“It’s something being organized online over the past few days. What distinguishes this plan when compared to previous attacks is that it really seems to be organized by Anonymous-affiliated groups from around the world in what looks like a joining of forces”
As you all might know that past experience of Israel while dealing hackers was not at all sweet. In case of Anonymous then we would like to remind you that, this would be the second attack on Israel by the group, as they launched the first “OpIsrael” in November 2012 in response to Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.  If you dig the recent past you will come to know that not only Anonymous, but also hackers from different part of the world targeted Israeli cyber space and caused big damages. For instance we can recap the hack of Kosova Hackers Security (KHS) where they hacked and exposed personal data of 35,000 Israeli people. Here we must have to name the hackers from Pakistan who are constantly against Israel causing massive cyber attack against leading IT industry of Israel and other high profile Israeli sites. Just a couple of months ago, the world seen what it call the black day in the history if Israeli cyber space where another Pak hackers community hacked the main domain controller of Israel, which causes a massive hack against almost all the big Israeli sites such as government, MSN, Bing, Live, Skype, Microsoft Store, BBC, CNN, Coca-Colla, XBOX, Windows, Intel & many more. Here we can also take the name of Indian hacker Godzilla & Arabian hacker community (Group-XP) who also harassed and harmed the Israeli cyber space very very badly. After observing all the scenario mentioned above, it is expected to watch some sensational fight between hackers and Israeli government. So lets wait for the time, and stay tuned with VOGH to get all the latest update on this story and also other cyber issues.



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Israel Ministry of Finance Unit (Lehava) Hacked By Hitcher

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 6/28/2012 02:46:00 am

Israel Ministry of Finance Unit (Lehava) Hacked By Hitcher To Protest Against Mr.Badoo's Arrest By FBI

The official website of Governament of Israel's Ministry of Finance Unit (Lehava) get hacked. According to sources a Well-known Pakistani hacker code named Hitcher from a hacker collective group Pak Cyber Force (PCF) was behind this attack. Though the hacker did not change the index page but he managed to gain access on the Lehava's web-server and uploaded his page which is clearly showing the reason of this hack. The hacker has also created a deface mirror on Zone-Hack. We also like to give you reminder that earlier in this year Hitcher also hacked Amitec- one of the top IT innovative company of Israel. 

Message of the Hacker:- 

"Site is Defaced In Protest of Ali Hassan aka Mr.Badoo Arrested By FBI 
His Chargers was hacking into PC of Andy who create any event of drawing Prophet Muhammad’s(SAW).
He hacked Andy account and remove that event from facebook
His Protest of Hack was Postive Just to Stop That events and His Message was clear That Respect each other and Each other Religion Too He neither Public Andy Data and personal info ..."

Hitcher also vows to engage more cyber attack while saying "This Hack is just A Protest We want Him Free, and Its Just a trailer..". Hitcher is widely known for defacing high profile websites, Here I am mentioning a few of  his activities & high profile hack wasOfficial website of one of KingFisher Airline, United Bank of India, IDBI Paisabuilder, Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia & 100+ Chinese Govt Websites & many more. 




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Anonymous Hacked 2,725 Emails Of Tunisia's Ruling Party Ennahda & Prime Minister

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/09/2012 12:56:00 pm

Anonymous Hacked 2,725 Emails Of Tunisia's Ruling Party Ennahda  & Prime Minister of Tunisia
A hacker group named Anonymous Tunisia (Anonymous TN) claimed that it has hacked over 2,725 emails belonging to Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party, including those of the prime minister, in the latest challenge to the Islamist-led government. The activist said the emails include phone numbers, bank transactions and invoices paid during Tunisia's election campaign in October, in which Ennahda won more than 40 percent of parliament seats, going on to lead the government. One of the emails was from Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, a senior Ennahda official, to the Turkish embassy, attaching Foreign Minister Rafik Abdesslem's CV. According to a YouTube video posted by the hacker group said the emails were released in protest against Ennahda's alleged failure to protect the unemployed and artists who were attacked by Salafi Islamists during a recent protest. 
"To the Tunisian government, we have kept a large part of your data secret. If you do not wish to see these published on the internet we ask you to work to the best of your ability to avoid internet censorship and to respect human rights and the freedom of expression in Tunisia," the activist said. Government officials declined detailed comment on the security breach but said many of the emails appeared to be old. 
Earlier in 2011 hacker from Anonymous has took down several govt. websites of Tunisia. Also few months ago a hacker from hacker collective Anonymous named CaliforniaKB took responsibility of hacking into the Hizb ut-Tahrir -Tunisian Islamist Liberation Party official website. This hack was a part of Operation Tunisia (#OpTunisia). If you talk about mail hack then we would like to give you reminder that couple of months ago Anonymous has hacked into the Syrian President Bashar Assad's E-mail-Id & exposed all the details. Also few weeks ago another hacktvist group named Teamgreyhat has hacked into the email id of Bangladesh Prime Minister.






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Anonymous Engaged Massive Cyber-Attack To Bring-down Vatican Website

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/09/2012 05:50:00 pm

Anonymous Engaged Massive Cyber-Attack To Bring-down Vatican Website 
Hacker collective group Anonymous take-down the official site of Vatican. In the last Wednesday evening Vatican faced massive denial of service of attack and www.vatican.va, was inaccessible for much of Wednesday afternoon and evening. According to Anonymous the motive of this cyber attack is to protest everything from Catholic doctrine to the sexual abuse of children. The hacker group said - "This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church," said the statement, posted on the Italian-language version of the Anonymous website. 
"Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organization spreads around the world," the hackers said in a statement. Last year also Anonymous tried to engage cyber-attack into the Vatican but failed. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed the attack but declined to comment on its possible source. He said he didn't know how long it would take the Vatican's technicians to bring the site back up. 
Similarly last year Anonymous has declared Operation Brotherhood and Threatens to "Destroy The Muslim Brotherhood". According to the official you tube video release Anon declared that  to hack Muslim Brotherhood websites, starting with the Arabic Ikhwanonline.com. But #OpBrotherhood  caused serious damage for Anonymous while a hacker named a Pakistani Hacker called Tha Disastar has Hacked and defaced the official website of AnonyOPS. The DDoS specilist has also faced massive denial of service attack on the anonyops.com. In the message hacker said that "Anonymous should stay in limits,and must not go out of there limits to others peoples religion". That time also Anonymous clarified that the attack was not to hit the Muslim religion but to those grand-masters who vows to follow all orders of the Murshid, without hesitation such as terrorism and so on. But the Muslims took that in a conservative way and as a result Anon faced massive criticism as well ass cyber attack. Who knows may be this attack against Vatican may also create the same scenario for the Hacktivist.  

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Official Website of NIOS-National Institute of Open Schooling Hacked By Hitcher

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/28/2012 02:09:00 am

Official Website of NIOS-National Institute of Open Schooling Hacked By Hitcher 

After remaining silent for couple of months, here again well-known Pakistani hacker known to as 'Hitcher' from a hacker collective group named Pak Cyber Force (PCF) strikes. Hitcher is widely recognized for targeting and defacing high profile sites such as Govt, Bank, IT, University and so on. This time also he caught a big fish. The official website of World's largest Open Schooling system, widely known to us as The National Institute of Open Schooling (often abbreviated as NIOS, NOS or National Open School) get hacked. According to resources the hacker managed to get access on the web-server, and thus he manipulated the three domains of NIOS. In-spite of having full privilege, the hacker did not harm the main index. He just uploaded his deface page as shown in the picture. This cyber attack took place yesterday & still the deface page injected by the hacker exist on the web-server. We can conclude while predicting NIOS authority either overlooked the whole matter or else, they are still very careless in cyber-security.  

Hacked Sites:- 
Deface Mirror:- 

Brief About NIOS:- The National Institute of Open Schooling (often abbreviated as NIOS, NOS or National Open School), is the Board of Education for open schools in India. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India in 1989 to provide education inexpensively to remote areas. The NIOS is a national board that administers examinations for Secondary and Senior Secondary examinations of open schools similar to the CBSE and the CISCE. It had a cumulative enrollment of about 1.5 million students from 2004–2009 at Secondary and Senior Secondary levels and enrolls about 350,000 students annually which makes it the largest open schooling system in the world.






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Anonymous Hacked Trinamool Congress Website & Posted A Fake Message

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 8/17/2012 02:36:00 am

Anonymous Hacked Trinamool Congress Website & Posted A Fake Message

Just few hours before the 66th Independence day of India, the official website of AITMC- All India Trinamul Congress, current ruling party of West-Bengal get hacked and the Archive page which records important announcements made by chief minister of West Bengal & Party Chairman Mamata Banerjee get defaced. Infamous hacker collective group Anonymous took responsibility of this hack. 
One of the hacker announced the hack publicly on twitter while saying- "At last a world leader listens to anonymous and decides to make great changes Mamata Banerjee Confesses : aitmc.org/chairperson_ar… WE LOVE DIDI". As per sources the hacker broke into the TMC's server, gained access on the website and posted a fake announcement :-
“I AM A MAOIST at heart and  always have been, It always pained me to speak and act against the ideology that I myself loved so much. I also appologize to the people whom I have hurt, The artist who tried to speak the truth, the writers who saw the right thing and every and any person who  tried to tell me I was going in the wrong direction, I am at your feet asking you to forgive me for the misguided acts I have done In life,”

Team VOGH took the above screen shot was taken from TMC's website, at the time when it was hacked. 
The hacker group also made the effort of giving a link to a morphed image of Mamata Banerjeeand a link to another document. For privacy reason we can't mention the link here. Trinamool's cyber team removed the offensive post within few minutes. According to the party's spokes man -"TMC website was hacked at 7.30 pm and detected within six minutes by the party's cyber team that works round-the-clock , updating the site every 15 minutes." Also the Party have lodged a complaint, immediately after the mishap. 
This hack is not the very first attack on TMC, earlier in this year (At the time of Indo-BD Cyber-War)  Bangladeshi hackers have hacked and defaced the index page of TMC's official website. We would also like to give you reminder that, Mamata Banerjee is not the first victim, In 2011Pak Hacker named KhantastiC haXor penetrated the official site of Indian Congress and defaced the Profile page of Party President Sonia Gandhi.  Also few other Pakistan hackers in early 2011 have hacked the official website of All India Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and so on. 






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Israel Hit By Demolishing Cyber Attack From Anonymous Caused $3 Billion Damage (#OpIsrael)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/11/2013 01:44:00 am

VOGH Exclusive: Israel Hit By Demolishing Cyber Attack From Anonymous Caused $3 Billion Damage (#OpIsrael) 

The past 7th April will be unforgettable for Israeli cyber space, yes it was no doubt the black day for Israel, when the World's largest hacker group "Anonymous" with help of several other hackers communities caused ruin while bringing down almost all the Israeli Government websites, along with more that 100,000 other important Israeli websites, 40,000 Facebook pages, 5,000 Twitter accounts and 30,000 bank accounts belonging to Israeli people. The hacker group not only demolished the cyber space of Israel, but also caused a loss of 3 billion USD. This never forgettable hacking rampage dubbed Operation Israel became the most devastating and venturesome hacking rampage ever happened to the Israeli cyber space. In the last week of March, it was dangerous hacker collective group Anonymous who called the operation widely known as #OpIsrael, where the hacker group vows to erase Israel from the Internet. And indeed the hacker group did that, According to several Israeli source, leading media outlets it has been confirmed that almost all the important sites owned by the Government of Israel have been  either hacked and paralyzed. These sites include the site of the Israeli Police, Israeli Prime Minister, Bureau of Statistics, Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, Stock Market and the Israel Ministry of Defense and many more. Regardless of the amount of damage done, the scale of the attack is bound to be embarrassing for the Israeli government. This is the second time that Anonymous has successfully taken down Israeli government websites. The first #OpIsrael attack happened last November and affected Israeli cyber fence heavily. Like the last November, this time also the reaction of Israel Government was indifferent and unconcerned. Despite of what Anonymous's claims of massive damage to Israel, the country's cyber security officials say that the attack caused minimal damage. "So far it is as was expected, there is hardly any real damage," Yitzhak Ben Yisrael from the government's National Cyber Bureau told the press. "Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the country's vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn't have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart." This is more or less what Anonymous always does, often with varying levels of success.







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Official Website of Senator Vicente C. Sotto III Hacked By Anonymous Philippines

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 1/08/2013 02:51:00 pm

Official Website of Senator Vicente C. Sotto III Hacked By Anonymous Philippines

Philippines rampage of hacktivist Anonymous continues, as this hacker collective group strikes again and blown the official website of Senator Vicente C. Sotto III. This attack carried under the banner of 'OccupyPhilippines' where the hacker group hacked into server of Senator Tito Sotto and defaced the index page. According to the hacker, the cyber attack was to stand against the controversial "Cybercrime Prevention Act of Philippines" widely known as Republic Act No. 10175. The hacker group believed that, if this bill did not get revised, then the freedom of speech in cyber space will be restricted. During this attack the hacker tried to send his message to the Senator, and that is - 

"It's been a long time, Tito Sen! Deny us our freedom of speech and of expression through R.A. 10175 
and we will deny you your cyberspace. You cannot shut us up, you cannot shut us down. 
And you shall not see us rest until R.A. 10175 is revised.
We are all waiting, we are all ready.
We are Anonymous, we are legion.
We do not forgive and we do not forget.
Expect Us
Protect our Right to Freedom of Expression!..."

The attack took place in yesterday evening, as soon as the intrusion was spotted the site was sent offline for a certain period. And today morning, the whole thing get restored and it came back to its normal format. 




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Facebook Outage in Many European Countries Not Caused By Anonymous But DNS Problem

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/14/2012 06:26:00 pm

Facebook Outage in Many European Countries Not Caused By Anonymous But DNS Problem 

World's most popular and largest social network Facebook faced another downtime. This time the outage effected millions of users in European countries including Denmark, France, Norway, Germany and Italy. After June this is the second outage which effected large number of Facebook users. Last time Facebook users faced disturbance while using their favorite social network. Facebook users across the globe experienced log-in difficulties for several hour. But this time, the social networking giant remain down for a decent time. The outage may have caused Facebook’s share price to go down. For a site with 900 million users worldwide, even a minor outage has a huge effect. Like the June issue, here also hacker collective came first and took credit of the outage. According to a twitter account of the hacktivist group named  Anonymous Own3r, took responsibility of the outage, In his tweet he claimed to figure out several vulnerabilities in Facebook, which causes the outage. In a pastebin note, the hacker publishes those so called vulnerabilities. Also in his tweet the hacker claimed to have control in many servers owned by Facebook. 

But Facebook completely denies the hacker attack & said the cause of the outage was nothing but DNS issue, neither hacker attack nor DDoS.  Here we want yo give you reminder that in 2011 Anonymous openly declared to take down Facebook. The operation was dubbed #Op-Facebook and Anonymous told that they will hit FB on the 5th of November last year. But in reality it was just a threat and as expected Anonymous failed to execute Operation Facebook. Later in June this year, Anonymous took credit for a couple of hours outage of Facebook, and here again Anonymous affiliated member repeated the same story, which again proves completely baseless, and in short it was nothing but a publicity stunt. 

In case of large social network like Facebook, such kind of DNS issues can be happened. Whatever immediately after this outage Facebook released a statement saying -
"There has not been a hack of Facebook. We have investigated these claims, and they are not valid. The evidence cited was produced by an automated vulnerability scanner that alerts developers of potential vulnerability, and we have found these all to be false alerts.
We expect Anonymous just like we expect any other attack on any other day. Due to our size, we face the same threats as seen everywhere else on the Web, but we have developed partnerships, back-end systems, and protocols to confront the full range of security challenges we face. Facebook has always been committed to protecting our users’ information, and we will continue to innovate and work tirelessly to defend this data.
Earlier (Thursday), we made a change to DNS as part of a traffic-optimization test, and that change resulted in some users being temporarily misrouted. We detected and resolved the issue immediately, but a small number of users located primarily in Western Europe experienced issues accessing the site while the DNS addresses repopulated. We are now back to 100 percent, and we apologize for any inconvenience..."



-Source (All Facebook)




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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Hacked By Over-X

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/08/2012 01:12:00 pm

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Hacked By Over-X 

Once again United Nations faced cyber attack, this time an hacker code named "Over-X" has hacked into the server of UNDP- United Nations Development Programme and uploaded his page. Still the reason of this hack is unknown, but according to the sources the hacker belongs to some Algerian hackers community. Also there is probability that he might be linked with infamous Anonymous. As expected Over-X have also created a deface mirror and that can be found on Arab-Zone. We would also like to refresh your memory while saying that earlier in 2011 and also in 2102 United Nations faced massive cyber attacks. It was hacker collective TeaMp0isoN with Anonymous who breached the server of United Nation & stolen thousands of  user names and passwords, that operation was dubbed #OpRobinHood. After that La Intrusa (Indian Hacker) hit United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) and uploaded his page. Few months later another hacker named Casi targeted United Nation and dumped the database. If you dig the history you will find more attacks on UN. 




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British Spy Agency GCHQ Performed DDoS Attack Against Anonymous -Snowden Documents Transpired

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/10/2014 01:49:00 am

British Spy Agency GCHQ Performed DDoS Attack Against Hacktivist Anonymous & LulzSec -Snowden Documents Transpired
While excavating the past, it was always found that cyber criminals, large hacker collective groups were the culprits for engaging voluminous denial of service attack. But this widely transfusing story get a one eighty degree reverse turn, when the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed another trade secret. Recently a lurid story get spot lighted, as the whistle blower Snowden unfold yet another breathtaking stealthy  documents taken from the National Security Agency. The clandestine documents taken the mask from the so called good guys, unveiling British spy agency GCHQ had launched a secret war against the infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous and a splinter group known as LulzSec several years ago. Many of you guessed right, this was happened when Anonymous were targeting various UK companies and government websites. The documents disclose that GCHQ carried out seemingly illegal DDoS attacks against the collective, flooding their chatrooms with so much traffic that they would become inaccessible – and all with the approval of the British government. The revelations come less than a year after several LulzSec activists were jailed by a British court for carrying out similar DDoS attacks against targets including the CIA, the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), News International, Sony and the Westboro Baptist Church, among others. 
This sensational issue was made public by NBC News deferentially with the help of none other than Edward Snowden. In their exclusive report headed 'War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers,' NBC said -The blunt instrument the spy unit used to target hackers, however, also interrupted the web communications of political dissidents who did not engage in any illegal hacking. It may also have shut down websites with no connection to Anonymous. According to the documents, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British counterpart of the NSA, shut down communications among Anonymous hacktivists by launching a “denial of service” (DDOS) attack – the same technique hackers use to take down bank, retail and government websites – making the British government the first Western government known to have conducted such an attack.
The documents, from a PowerPoint presentation prepared for a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV, show that the unit known as the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, boasted of using the DDOS attack – which it dubbed Rolling Thunder -- and other techniques to scare away 80 percent of the users of Anonymous internet chat rooms. 
The existence of JTRIG has never been previously disclosed publicly. The documents also show that JTRIG infiltrated chat rooms known as IRCs and identified individual hackers who had taken confidential information from websites. In one case JTRIG helped send a hacktivist to prison for stealing data from PayPal, and in another it helped identify hacktivists who attacked government websites. 
As soon as this story getting all the spot lights, immediately the GCHQ responded to this saying all their movements and operations were lawful. “All of GCHQ’s work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensure[s] that our activities are authorized, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. All of our operational processes rigorously support this position.” -GCHQ said the press. To know more detail about this story, don't forget to stay tuned with VOGH. 



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Kingfisher Airlines Official Website & 3 Other Domain of Kingfisher Hacked By Hitcher

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/02/2012 12:21:00 am

Kingfisher Airlines Official Website & 3 Other Domain of Kingfisher Hacked By Hitcher 

Official website of one of KingFisher Airline - one of the best airline in India and central Asia get hacked. Well-known Pakistani hacker code named Hitcher from a hacker collective group Pak Cyber Force (PCF) took responsibility of this hack. Not only the official website but also three other domain of KingFisher get hacked. Among them there are kingfisherxpress, kingfisher-travel & kingfishercargo. The hacker has also created a deface mirror on Zone-H. This cyber-attack took place in the evening of 1st May and still the hacker managed to establish his access on the KingFisher web-server. Hitcher is widely known for defacing high profile websites, his last three high profile hack was United Bank of India, IDBI Paisabuilder & Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia & 100+ Chinese Govt Websites.

Brief About KingFisher & It's Achievement:- 
Kingfisher Airlines Limited is an airline group based in India. Its head office is in Andheri (East), Mumbai and Registered Office in UB City, Bangalore. Kingfisher Airlines, through its parent company United Breweries Group, has a 50% stake in low-cost carrier Kingfisher Red. The airline has been facing financial issues for many years. Best Airline in India and Central Asia’, ‘Best Economy Class Seats’ and ‘Staff Service Excellence Award for airlines in India and Central Asia’ in World Airline Awards,2010. STAR AIRLINE' award by Skytrax for 3rd consecutive year, 2010. India’s Favourite Airline' in HT MARS Consumer Satisfaction Survey , 2009. Best Airline in India and Central Asia', 'Best Cabin Crew-Central Asia' for Kingfisher Airlines and 'Best Low-Cost Airlines in India and Central Asia' for Kingfisher Red services in SKYTRAX World Airline Awards, 2009. Bonus Promotion' (Japan, Pacific, Asia, Australia) and ‘Best Customer Service’ (Japan, Pacific, Asia, Australia) in Freddie Award, 2009. Kingfisher Airlines frequent flyer programme, King Club has won Top Honors at the 21st Annual Freddie Awards in the Japan, Pacific, Asia and Australia region & so on. 



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