Hacktivists join forces with Occupy Wall Street movement

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Two hacktivist groups, Anonymous and TeaM p0isoN, are now working together to hack and harass banks in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Announced in a YouTube video, the new campaign is … [Read more...]

Anonymous plans for “Day of Vengance” this Saturday

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A manifesto posted online says the "hacktivist" group Anonymous will hold a "Day of Vengence" (sic) this Saturday (Sept. 24), a coordinated, multistate protest that will include cyberattacks against … [Read more...]

DHS warns about coming Anonymous attacks

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The United States Department of Homeland Security warned the security community about potential attacks from hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months. The Sept. 2 security bulletin … [Read more...]

Anonymous and LulzSec members arrested in UK and Ireland

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Several men have been arrested on hacking charges over the past few days. A 24 year old man and a 20 year old man, one from Mexborough in South Yorkshire and another from Warminster in Wiltshire, … [Read more...]

Hackers protest peacefully in San Fransisco

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A few dozen protesters turned out on Monday for a San Francisco rally organized by the hacker group Anonymous to protest alleged police brutality and what they called anti-free speech tactics by … [Read more...]

How about some organized cyberchaos ?

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The online vigilante groups Anonymous and LulzSec are weakening their cause with scattershot attacks and need to get more intelligent and focused, according to a panel of computer security experts at … [Read more...]

Syrian military website defaced as retaliation

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Once again, hacking has turned political – with the website of the Ministry of Defense in Syria defaced by the Anonymous hacktivist collective. Amid news reports of thousands of deaths in Syria … [Read more...]

Anonymous on a hacking spree again … U.S. government supplier involved

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Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence … [Read more...]

Anonymous and LulzSec provoke FBI with defiant statement

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In a defiant statement addressed largely at FBI director Steve Chabinsky, members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups vowed to continue with their hacking campaigns and dared law … [Read more...]

Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrests 4 Dutch Anonymous members

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In the Netherlands, 4 members of the hacking collective Anonymous were arrested by the High Tech Crime Unit. This was an action which was coordinated by the FBI in the United States. In the US, 16 … [Read more...]

Private data of Anonymous / LulzSec members exposed by another collective named TeamPoison

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What seems like a little fight between hacker collectives has turned out to have some people's private data exposed on the Web. Whether the exposed people are really members of LulzSec or Anonymous … [Read more...]

Anonymous gets into Apple; but it was an accident :) They were busy elsewhere !

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The Internet vigilante hacker group Anonymous claimed to have broken into an Apple Inc server and published a small number of usernames and passwords for one of the U.S. technology company's … [Read more...]

Anonymous not so happy with Malaysian government; websites under attack

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The big news in Asia this week is that Anonymous has found a new target – the Malaysian government. Recently the Internet regulator in Malaysia (SKMM) issued a notice to all the ISPs in the … [Read more...]

Turkish police arrests 32 alledged members of Anonymous

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Turkish police detained 32 members of the Anonymous cyberactivism collective on suspicion of planning attacks on a number of websites, Turkish state-run news agency Anatolian reported. The action … [Read more...]

Will Anonymous attack the US Federal Reserve ?

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The Anonymous hacker group says it plans to target the Federal Reserve starting tomorrow, most likely with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to shut down the agency's Web … [Read more...]