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It seems NATO may be the latest victim of the “anti-sec” group of hackers that refer to themselves as “Anonymous.” On their Twitter feed this morning, they announced, “Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data ”
Just in case you’re wondering what “anti-sec” means… Here’s the Wiki description. Mine would be hackers that think their cause is noble and just. Since I’d like my site to still be here tomorrow – or five minutes from now – I’ll just say I do not wholeheartedly agree with their view.
The Anti Security Movement (also written as antisec and anti-sec) is a movement opposed to the computer security industry. Antisec is against full disclosure of information relating to but not limited to: software vulnerabilities, exploits, exploitation techniques, hacking tools, attacking public outlets and distribution points of that information. The general thought behind this is that the computer security industry uses full-disclosure to profit and develop scare-tactics to convince people into buying their firewalls, anti-virus software and auditing services.
FOX NEWS: The group called Anonymous says it would be “irresponsible” to publish most of the material it stole from NATO but that it is sitting on about 1 gigabyte of data. Anonymous posted a PDF file Thursday, and broadcast a link to it from its Twitter page, showing what appeared to be a document headed “NATO Restricted.”
A second link tweeted out later by the group — which returns an error message — claims to be to another restricted NATO document on “outsourcing CIS in Kosovo (2008).”
Anonymous is a loosely organized group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks. It has claimed responsibility for attacks against corporate and government websites worldwide.
The group also claims credit for disrupting the websites of Visa and MasterCard in December, when the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
UPDATE:A second link tweeted out later by the group — which returns an error message — claims to be to another restricted NATO document on “outsourcing CIS in Kosovo (2008).”
Anonymous is a loosely organized group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks. It has claimed responsibility for attacks against corporate and government websites worldwide.
The group also claims credit for disrupting the websites of Visa and MasterCard in December, when the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
And now they’re taunting NATO and the FBI…
Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data :)
We are sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible. But Oh NATO....
Here is the next NATO Restricted PDF: http://t.co/zSR7bVo | Outsourcing CIS in Kosovo (2008) | Enjyoing the war yet, NATO? #AntiSec
Hello thar, FBI. Since you were so kind to address us via press, we and @LulzSec like to respond: http://t.co/NXItB0w | #AntiSec Sail Strong
Here’s the joint statement issued by Anonymous and Lulz Security mentioned in the Twitter Feed:
Hello thar FBI and international law authorities, We recently stumbled across the following article with amazement and a certain amount of amusement:
The statements made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky in thisarticle clearly seem to be directed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, and we are happy to provide you with a response.
You state:
“We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable, [even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it’s entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts.”
Now let us be clear here, Mr. Chabinsky, while we understand that you andyour colleagues may find breaking into websites unacceptable, let us tellyou what WE find unacceptable:
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
“The Internet has become so important to so many people that we have to ensure that the World Wide Web does not become the Wild Wild West.”
Let me ask you, good sir, when was the Internet not the Wild Wild West? Doyou really believe you were in control of it at any point? You were not.
That does not mean that everyone behaves like an outlaw. You see, mostpeople do not behave like bandits if they have no reason to. We become banditson the Internet because you have forced our hand. The Anonymous bitchslap ringsthrough your ears like hacktivism movements of the 90s. We’re back – and we’renot going anywhere. Expect us.
UPDATE: The statements made by deputy assistant FBI director Steve Chabinsky in thisarticle clearly seem to be directed at Anonymous and Lulz Security, and we are happy to provide you with a response.
You state:
“We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable, [even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it’s entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts.”
Now let us be clear here, Mr. Chabinsky, while we understand that you andyour colleagues may find breaking into websites unacceptable, let us tellyou what WE find unacceptable:
- * Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.
- * Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for federal contracts we all know they can’t fulfil.
- * Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough so the status quo will never change.
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
“The Internet has become so important to so many people that we have to ensure that the World Wide Web does not become the Wild Wild West.”
Let me ask you, good sir, when was the Internet not the Wild Wild West? Doyou really believe you were in control of it at any point? You were not.
That does not mean that everyone behaves like an outlaw. You see, mostpeople do not behave like bandits if they have no reason to. We become banditson the Internet because you have forced our hand. The Anonymous bitchslap ringsthrough your ears like hacktivism movements of the 90s. We’re back – and we’renot going anywhere. Expect us.
I guess they read The Blaze…?
An amazing summary of what happened in a few hours: http://t.co/h4VbYmx | #AntiSec #Voice | Silent no more!
And more NATO taunting…
Hi NATO. Yes we haz more of your delicious data. You wonder where from? No hints, your turn. You call it war; we laugh at your battleships.
Anonymous (and LulzSec) hacks NATO and issues joint press release.
As a part of its ongoing #AntiSec campaign Anonymous has reportedly breached NATO’s cyber security making-off with one gigabyte of stolen data.
Anonymous has since released two PDFs containing a portion of the data stolen, linking to them via two tweets:
“We think, actually we may not release emails from The Sun, simply because it may compromise the court case. But.. pdfcast.org/pdf/nato-1.
“Here is the next NATO Restricted PDF: pdfhost.net/index.php?Acti… | Outsourcing CIS in Kosovo (2008) | Enjyoing the war yet, NATO? #AntiSec”
“Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data
The first document released by the group came from 2007. The allegeded NATO document is funding request on communication systems for the Joint Communications Control Centre, which supported ISAF forces in Afganistan.
The second document, dated a year later in 2008, is proposal document outlining plans to outsource Nato forces communications systems in Kosovo. The attack has been credited as a part of the group’s ongoing AntiSec campaign. To date the group has targeted numerous governments and agencies it views as corrupt, or overtly attempting to censor or moderate the internet.
Anonymous and LulzSec Press release by pastebin:
And the battle wages on
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