Anonymous

By Kendra Kennedy, Benjamin Fleshman, and Hassan Alsuleiman

Propaganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUM0E_EHIKQ

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 (2011-2012)

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:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/anonymous-arrests-fbi_n_3780980.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(2013 - 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.

Sources

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/anonymous-arrests-fbi_n_3780980.html/• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29#Operation_Safe_Winter_.282013.E2.80.93present.29/• http://www.bustle.com/articles/65444-how-did-anonymous-start-the-history-of-the-mysterious-hacktivist-group-

began-quite-some-time-ago/• http://mic.com/articles/23922/what-is-anonymous-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-shadowy-

internet-group/• http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/nyregion/hacker-who-helped-disrupt-cyberattacks-is-allowed-to-walk-

free.html?ref=topics/• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec/• http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/lulzsecs-top-3-hacking-tools-deconstructed/d/d-id/1098717/• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Avenge_Assange_Anonymous.png• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/anonymous-charges-operation-payback_n_4039887.h

tml• http://www.biography.com/people/julian-assange-20688499• http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/• http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anonymous-most-memorable-hacks/13/• http://middleeast.about.com/od/humanrightsdemocracy/a/Definition-Of-The-Arab-Spring.htm• http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anonymous-most-memorable-hacks/• http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-donors-data-breached-conservatives-1.1015349• https://anoninsiders.net/operation-safe-winter-2014-2652/• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/12/anonymous-target-terrorist-twitter-accounts-

charlie-hebdo-attack• http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-sees-9200-isis-linked-twitter-accounts-314116