Anonymous By Kendra Kennedy, Benjamin Fleshman, and Hassan Alsuleiman
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how did Anonymous start?
Operation: Payback is a Bitch (2010) Purpose: Retaliating against attacks on sites like the PirateBay Targets: Aiplex Software, Recording Industry Association of America, Motion Picture Association of America, British law firm ACS:Law, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, the British nightclub Ministry of Sound, the Spanish copyright society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, the US Copyright Office, and lesser known sites. Estimated total down time of all sites: 538 Hours.
Operation: Avenge Assange (2010) Purpose: An extension of Operation: Payback, retaliating against those pressuring WikiLeaks to stop publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables Targets: PayPal, PostFinance, the Swedish Prosecution Authority, MasterCard, and Visa
Operation Tunisia (2011) Purpose: To Support Arab Spring Movement in Tunisia Targets: Tunisian government websites, the Tunisian Prim Minister’s website Operation Egypt (2011) Purpose: To support Arab Spring Movement in Egypt Targets: Egyptian Government websites,
Other Noteworthy Attacks, Hacks, and Protests Westboro Baptist Church (2011) Sony (2011) Occupy Wall street (2011) Operation Darknet ( )
Subgroups Lulzsec: Used a BotNet owned by member KMS consisting of 8,000 infected servers for DDoS attacks. LulzRaft: A group or individual responsible for cyberterrorist activities in Canada. Targeted conservative political groups and Husky Energy.
2011 Arrests Hector "Sabu" Monsegur: Member and leader in Lulzsec. Rolled over on key members and worked with FBI to avoid potential 124 year sentencing. Jeremy Hammond: "I did this because I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors" Source: anonymous-arrests-fbi_n_ html
2011 Arrests (Cont.) Chris Doyan: Arrested for a cyberattack on the website for Santa Cruz county in California. Dmitriy Guzner: First person arrested in an Anonymous DDoS attack. Fingered in 2008 by the FBI for attacks against the church of scientology.
Noteable Recent Activity Operation Safe Winter( Today): A yearly non-hacking humanitarian effort to raise awareness of life on the streets. Operation Charlie Hebdo(2015): A retaliation to the Charlie Hebdo shootings to take down twitter accounts and websites associated with Islamic extremist groups. Operation ISIS(2015): Retaliation against ISIS for recent events. An attempt to take down social media accounts associated with the terrorist group in which 9,200 twitter accounts where recorded and released.
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