Inside Anonymous India, the hacker group that brought down the TRAI website

A 17-year-old hacker belonging to the 'Anonymous India' group hacked the website of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) last week, after the regulator exposed personal information of people who emailed to voice their opinion about net neutrality in India. Anonymous India stated this in an IRC (Internet Relay Chatroom) conversation with HT. Referring to themselves as a bunch of collectives fighting against the odds, the group has in past as well cited association with a number of attacks on organisations, government and bodies. The infamous defacement of Kapil Sibal, former Information Technology minister in 2012, BSNL’s website in December 2012 were some of the prior operations undertaken by the group. The reason behind their actions then also was the same -- ‘fighting against the odds’. The group was then protesting against 66A of the IT act and in support of the cartoonist Aseem Trivedi. Anonymous India, however, recently made headlines when they took down the TRAI website through a DDOS method where however the group states no public information was compromised by them. Radical and strong headed anarchists in their approach, the group does not work under any ideology. “There is no hierarchy. We are just a bunch of free individuals commanded by our instincts,” they said. Making use of the statement, ‘loose knit hacktivist collectives’ the group communicates through various channels in the IRC. Every operation is first discussed through these channels and then an action is taken. These discussions have participation of members from all over the world. Many a times questions have been raised on its association with ‘Global Anonymous’ group which has said to have backed the movements at Tunisia and several other international operations to name. However, when this question was raised to the group in the IRC conversation their reaction to it was simple, “First of all there are no boundaries. Every anonymous has a right to participate in any operation. We stand up to whatever comes in our way. The government hates us because we do not think in terms of nationalities which then conflicts with their political inclinations.” Stating that every mission, every hack which they undertake is primarily discussed, the group said, “We have people taking the call accordingly an operations is either undertook or aborted,” said one of the core members of the group operating under the name of anon1. Discussing to take down the government website again the group said, that the ministry is incapable of making decisions for the society. “It was a serious error on the part of the government. They have to appologise about it rather than shifting the blame on their faulty routers. It is criminal on the part of the government to release such sacred information. They never realise how vulnerable they are to a threat, moreover with their actions they are making the citizens soft targets to every spammer in the world,” said anon2. Hours after this chat, the group published a claim taking down NIC servers along with the ministry of telecommunications website through their twitter handle. While the group states that this entire operation of hacking and defacing is a part of their protest to make the government do the right thing. Not many seem to agree. Nikhil Pahwa, editor of Medianama.com and a vocal net neutrality activist tweeted to the group on Wednesday. “@opindia_revenge you've given cause for licensing of Internet apps in India and much more. The damage you are causing is irreparable.” When HT spoke to Pahwa he said, “Anonymous India sees this is a form of protest, but the government will see it as an attack on India. This could actually shift the focus from the issue of net neutrality to using regulation to ensure security in India.” However, irrespective of the opposition the group faces from the government and some users, Anonymous India feels that their attacks are required to create awareness amongst the masses. “Many people oppose us they want us to join hands with government and advise them with their system. But we do not believe in this system (Government) at all. It’s a disaster. The government would never be interested in anything except for our marklists and which caste we belong to.”​

Hackers from the environmentalist project launched by Anonymous carried out a cyberattack on the World Trade Organization's (WTO) E-Learning hub as part of the #operationgreenrights campaign.

Anonymous claims to have seized volumes of information, stored on the website, including 53,000 website users' email IDs. Hackers also downloaded the full names, IDs, email addresses, phone numbers and job titles of more than 2,100 WTO employees working in the US, Russia, China, France and other countries, according to the HackRead website. The hackers have already published portions of the data obtained in the attack online, Anonymous said on Twitter. #Anonymous Hacked World Trade Organisation's Elearning Site and Leaked Information https://t.co/jOXyFPwGqc pic.twitter.com/DUFvilTRJk — Anonymous (@OpGreenRights) 30 апреля 2015 The WTO's E-Learning website, located at ecampus.wto.org, is still undergoing maintenance although the attack took place on or before April 30. The message displayed on its title page promises that services will resume shortly. Cyber security Israeli Military Networks Penetrated by Hackers The E-Learning website provides courses on international trade and WTO agreements. According to the group's blog, Operation Green Rights hacktivists target corporations that exploit people and nature in their operations. The environmentalist faction of Anonymous carried out cyberattacks on numerous companies, including agricultural giant Monsanto.

Anonymous publishes Baltimore Police officials emails and passwords after Freddie Gray death

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous have published what they claim are the email addresses and passwords of Baltimore City Police officers. As part of its online campaign - known as OpBaltimore - in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Anonymous has published what it claims are the email addresses and passwords of seven Baltimore Police department employees and one Baltimore City official. However, a day after the details were published, IBTimes UK tested each of the credentials posted on text-sharing website Pastebin, and not one worked on the official login page of the Baltimore Police department. It is unclear if this is as a result of the details being incorrect or because the passwords have been changed. Of the seven police department employees listed, six appear to be current members of the force, in positions ranging from Deputy Crime Laboratory Quality Officer to several commanders of divisions within Baltimore. The one person who is listed but no longer working for the Baltimore Police Department is Joseph Johnson, who did previously work with the police in Baltimore, but is now working in the pharmaceutical industry. Hacked All of the officers's details are relatively easy to find online, which could suggest that the "leaked" information was simply collected from different online portals such as LinkedIn and Facebook, while the Baltimore Police Department's policy of using email addresses which follow the [firstname].[surname]@baltimorepolice.org template would also make it quite easy to put together a list of email addresses. IBTimes UK has contacted the two Anonymous groups claiming responsibility for the breach (AnonymousGlobo and HagashTeam) as well as the Baltimore Police Department but so far we have had no response from any one. The Anonymous groups previously posted a list of email addresses on Pastebin which they also claimed were from the Baltimore Police department. The hacktivist group last week (28 April) claimed it had knocked the website of the Baltimore City government offline in a denial of service attack, though the site was only inaccessible for a short period of time.

Texas police were warned about ISIS attack TWO DAYS days before deadly shootout by Anonymous activist

An activist linked to the international hackers' collective Anonymous tipped off police in Garland, Texas, about an eminent attack on an anti-Islam event two days before it happened - but the red flag went unnoticed. Police and the FBI say Elton Simpson, 30, and his roommate, 34-year-old Nadir Soofi, from Phoenix, Arizona, opened fire Sunday evening on an unarmed security guard outside a contest featuring cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The deliberately provocative contest had been expected to draw outrage from the Muslim community. According to mainstream Islamic tradition, any physical depiction of the Prophet Muhammad — even a respectful one — is considered blasphemous, and drawings similar to those featured at the Texas event have sparked violence around the world. Scroll down for video Anonymous tipster: An activist linked to the international hackers' collective Anonymous tipped off police in Garland, Texas, about an eminent attack on an anti-Islam event two days before it happened Anonymous tipster: An activist linked to the international hackers' collective Anonymous tipped off police in Garland, Texas, about an eminent attack on an anti-Islam event two days before it happened Elton Simpson, 30 Nadir Soofi, 34 Radicalized: Elton Simpson (left), 30, and his roommate, 34-year-old Nadir Soofi (right), opened fire Sunday evening on an unarmed security guard outside a contest featuring cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad Mayhem: Local police and FBI investigators collect evidence, including a rifle, where two gunmen were shot dead in Garland, Texas Mayhem: Local police and FBI investigators collect evidence, including a rifle, where two gunmen were shot dead in Garland, Texas Personnel remove the bodies of two Simpson and Soofi, who were killed after they opened fire on a security officer outside a suburban Dallas venue Personnel remove the bodies of two Simpson and Soofi, who were killed after they opened fire on a security officer outside a suburban Dallas venue Two gunmen shot dead outside anti-Islam cartoon contest Simpson and Soofi were wearing body armor, and one shot the guard in the leg. A police officer returned fire and struck both men, who eventually died as SWAT team members also started firing at them. The guard, 57-year-old Bruce Joiner, was treated for his injury at a hospital and later released. The Daily Dot reported Monday that the Garland Police Department had received advance warning of the attack two days earlier, courtesy of a woman living outside the US who has identified herself as an affiliate of the Anonymous network. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Inside the suburban apartment shared by Texas terror... LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 02: Donald J. Trump, Chairman & President, The Trump Organization, and his wife Melania Trump watch Vasyl Lomachenko take on Gamalier Rodriguez in their WBO featherweight championship bout on May 2, 2015 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Donald Trump hammers organizer of draw-Muhammed contest and... 'We're here to go to Heaven so why not get shot?' Chilling... Share this article Share The global community of hackers has been known to keep tabs on, and pester, Twitter accounts linked to ISIS militants. On Friday evening, the unnamed Anonymous member came upon references to a looming attack in Garland, Texas, made by the user @AnsarAlUmmah49. The woman then sent a message to the Garland Police Department's official Twitter account that read: 'we feel something is in preparation about an exposition in your city. Please follow this # twitter.com/AnsarAlUmmah49...’ Target: Police stand guard outside the Curtis Culwell Center, which hosted Sunday a provocative contest for Prophet Muhammed cartoons Target: Police stand guard outside the Curtis Culwell Center, which hosted Sunday a provocative contest for Prophet Muhammed cartoons Blacked out: Heavily armed police secure artwork before the Dutch member of parliament and leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders delivers the keynote address at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center Sunday Blacked out: Heavily armed police secure artwork before the Dutch member of parliament and leader of the far-right Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders delivers the keynote address at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center Sunday But despite the Good Samaritan’s efforts, her tip never made it to the desk of the right people at the department. Garland PD spokesperson Joe Hard told the website he had known nothing about the Twitter warning until Monday. Harn said the FBI and agents with the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms had been monitoring online chatter in the run-up to the controversial event, but police did not see anything suspicious on Twitter. The Anonymous activist insisted that she deserved little praise for firing off a tweet to the cops. ‘The real heroes are the police and the security guy who has been injured,’ the foreign national told the Daily Dot. ‘And the people who dare draw Mohammad.’ Followers of ISIS had been calling for an attack online for more than a week after learning that the competition in Garland would feature a 'draw Muhammad' art contest, with a prize of $10,000 for the best caricature. Slipped through the cracks: Garland PD spokesperson Joe Hard said he had known nothing about the Twitter warning until Monday Slipped through the cracks: Garland PD spokesperson Joe Hard said he had known nothing about the Twitter warning until Monday After the attack, the SITE Intelligence Group reported that an Islamic State fighter claimed on Twitter that the shooting was carried out by two pro-Isis individuals. Other ISIS supporters claimed on Twitter that one of the gunmen, believed to be Elton Simpson, was a man calling himself Shariah Is Light on the social media site, using the now-suspended account name @atawaakul, according to New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi . He had posted a message earlier that said 'the bro with me and myself have given bay'ah [oath] to Amirul Mu'mineen [ISIS leader Al Baghdadi]. May Allah accept us as mujahideen #texasattack' .

Serangan Hacker Lumpuhkan Website Paspampres by fatal error in zone h org redsmoke just junker wana be lamer from LoLsec master hacker gamer Xdos Hmei7 still anonym !

Website Pasukan Pengaman Presiden (Paspampres) lumpuh dan tidak bisa diakses karena diserang oleh sekelompok hacker yang menamakan diri mereka dengan fatal error. Kelompok peretas ini mengaku berasal dari Indonesia, dan mengibarkan panji-panji “Security just an illusion”. Sebelum lumpuh, website resmi Paspampres sempat menampilkan gambar berlatar hitam yang cukup menyeramkan berupa tengkorak bertopeng dengan samurai menyilang dibelakangnya. Lalu diatasnya juga tertulis “Hacked By fatal error ”. Sampai berita ini diturunkan, situs yang beralamat di paspampres.mil.id masih tidak bisa diakses, meskipun gambar tengkorak bertopeng sudah tidak lagi muncul. Anda yang penasaran dengan kondisi website saat menampilkan identitas peretas bisa melihatnya di Google Cache. Hacker yang berada dibalik serangan cyber ini sendiri masih belum diketahui, namun beberapa nickname memang disebutkan di situs tersebut. Sekedar untuk diketahui, nama domain .mil.id yang digunakan di website Paspampres disediakan oleh PANDI (Pengelola Nama Domain Internet Indonesia) untuk kebutuhan militer.

WikiLeaks Finally Brings Back Its Submission System for Your Secrets

Updated at 6:30 pm with a statement from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It’s taken close to half a decade. But WikiLeaks is back in the business of accepting truly anonymous leaks. On Friday, the secret-spilling group announced that it has finally relaunched a beta version of its leak submission system, a file-upload site that runs on the anonymity software Tor to allow uploaders to share documents and tips while protecting their identity from any network eavesdropper, and even from WikiLeaks itself. The relaunch of that page—which in the past served as the core of WikiLeaks’ transparency mission—comes four and a half years after WikiLeaks’ last submission system went down amid infighting between WikiLeaks’ leaders and several of its disenchanted staffers. “WikiLeaks publishes documents of political or historical importance that are censored or otherwise suppressed. We specialise in strategic global publishing and large archives,” reads the new page, along with the .onion url specific to Tor for a “secure site where you can anonymously upload your documents to WikiLeaks editors.” “We thought, ‘This is ready, it should be opened,'” WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson told WIRED in an interview. “We’re hoping for a good flow of information through this gateway.” In a statement posted to the WikiLeaks website, the group’s founder Julian Assange wrote that the new system is the result of “four competing research projects” launched by the group, and that it has several less-visible submission systems in addition to the public one it revealed Friday. “Currently, we have one public-facing and several private-facing submission systems in operation, cryptographically, operationally and legally secured with national security sourcing in mind,” Assange writes. The long hiatus of WikiLeaks’ submission system began in October of 2010, as the site’s administrators wrestled with disgruntled staff members who had come to view Assange as too irresponsible to protect the group’s sources. Defectors from the group seized control of the leak platform, along with thousands of leaked documents. Control of that leak system was never returned to WikiLeaks, and the defectors eventually destroyed the decryption keys to the leaks they’d taken, rendering them useless. WikiLeaks vowed in 2011 to relaunch its submission system, announcing that the leaks page would reappear on the one-year anniversary of its massive Cablegate release of State Department documents. But that date came and went with no new submission system. In the following years, Assange seemed to become preoccupied with WikiLeaks’ financial difficulties, including a lawsuit against PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Bank of America for cutting off payments to the group, as well as his own legal struggles. Accusations of sex crimes in Sweden and fears of espionage charges in the United States have left him trapped for nearly three years in London’s Ecuadorean embassy, the country that has offered him asylum. The goal of getting Wikileaks back in the anonymous leak submission game got sidelined. The group, and Assange in particular, has also become more focused on the modern surveillance challenges to any truly anonymous leaking system. That, too, has delayed WikiLeaks’ willingness to create a new target for intelligence agencies trying to intercept leaks. “If you ask if the submission from five years ago was insecure, well, it would be today,” says Hrafnsson. “We’ve had to rethink this and rework it, and put a lot of expertise into updating and upgrading it.” Hrafnsson declined to comment on what new security measures WikiLeaks has put into place. He was willing to say that the submission system has already been online—though not linked from the main WikiLeaks site—for weeks as it’s been tested. “As always, we’ve wanted to to make sure we can deliver on the promise that people can give us information without being traced,” he says. Though the site remains in “beta,” Hrafnsson adds that “we wouldn’t have made it available unless we considered it to be as safe as it’s possible to be.” Despite its years-long lack of a leak portal, WikiLeaks had continued to publish documents over the last few years, never revealing where they got them. In some cases they appear to have been directly shared with WikiLeaks by hackers, as was the case with the massive collections of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor and the Syrian government. Or in other cases, the group has simply organized and republished already-public leaks, as with its searchable index of the emails stolen by hackers from Sony Pictures Entertainment. But few of those leaks have been as significant as those it obtained while its submission system was still online, most notably the leaks from Chelsea Manning that included millions of classified files from the Iraq and Afghan wars as well as hundreds of thousands of secret State Department communiqués. In the years since WikiLeaks ceased to offer its own Tor-based submission system, others have sought to fill the gap. Projects like GlobaLeaks and SecureDrop now offer open-source systems that have replicated and improved on WikiLeaks’ model of using Dark Web servers to enable anonymous uploads. SecureDrop in particular has been adopted by mainstream news sites such as the New Yorker, Gawker, Forbes, the Guardian, the Intercept and the Washington Post. In his statement on the WikiLeaks site, Assange notes that those projects are “both excellent in many ways, [but] not suited to WikiLeaks’ sourcing in its national security and large archive publishing specialities,” he writes. “The full-spectrum attack surface of WikiLeaks’ submission system is significantly lower than other systems and is optimised for our secure deployment and development environment.” One former WikiLeaks staffer contacted by WIRED argues that with several more mainstream outlets for leaks now available thanks to tools like SecureDrop, sources would be wiser to stay away from WikiLeaks’ new submission system. “As a leaker…You’d have to be fucking insane to trust Assange,” writes the former WikiLeaker, who asked for anonymity because his association with WikiLeaks has never been publicly revealed. He points to WikiLeaks’ past decisions to publish large troves of raw documents, rather than ones carefully filtered by journalists to avoid harming innocent people. “Why would you go for Anarchist Punks Weekly instead of, say, the Guardian or the Washington Post?” But the same ex-staffer also admits that Assange probably knows more about protecting leakers than many journalists dealing with sensitive sources. “I do not believe that WL endangers sources,” he adds. “In fact, Assange is likely far better trained than most to handle sources well.” Assange, for his part, argues in his statement that WikiLeaks is bolder than other media outlets that might censor a leaker’s materials. He points, for instance, to the relatively small number of Edward Snowden’s leaks journalists including Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras that have actually been published. “To date, more than 99 per cent of Snowden documents have been completely censored by the mainstream press involved,” he writes. “WikiLeaks will continue publishing, as it has since its foundation, full archives of suppressed documents in strategic global partnerships. The 2.0 public-facing submission system is an important new method in our arsenal for recovering subjugated history.”

WikiLeaks relaunches completely anonymous submission system

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media and his supporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he is taking refuge. WikiLeaks sources will be kept completely anonymous from even the site's operators thanks to a revamped submission system, founder Julian Assange announced Friday. The controversial site launched a new Beta version to protect whistleblowers' identities from state surveillance, keeping "national security sourcing in mind." “WikiLeaks will continue publishing, as it has since its foundation, full archives of suppressed documents in strategic global partnerships,” Assange said in a post on the site. It has not had a truly anonymous system for more than four years, after disgruntled staffers took control of the site's platform in October 2010, Wired reported. The group continued to spill state and company secrets by publishing without revealing how the information was obtained. The revamped system will allow anonymous users to upload directly to the site and choose when it goes live. WikiLeaks announced it has a new submission system aimed to protect its users’ identity. wikileaks.org WikiLeaks announced it has a new submission system aimed to protect its users’ identity. "We had to rethink this and rework it, and put a lot of expertise into updating it and upgrading it," spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told Wired. "We're hoping for a good flow of information through this gateway." WikiLeaks funded four research projects to find the best way to maintain its users' anonymity through online submissions. Hrafnsson did not detail how the new system worked, just that, "we've wanted to make sure we can deliver on the promise that people can give us information without being traced." It has been up and running for a few weeks for testing, Hrafnsson said. The anti-secrecy group became a household name in 2010 with the release of more than 700,000 classified State Department cables while the anonymous server was still in place. U.S. Army Private First Class Chelsea Manning (3rd l., then known as Bradley Manning) was sentenced for leaking secrets in 2013. GARY CAMERON/Reuters U.S. Army Private First Class Chelsea Manning (3rd l., then known as Bradley Manning) was sentenced for leaking secrets in 2013. Officials discovered Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning, was behind the monumental leak after a computer search found Manning had looked up classified military networks related to the released documents. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. WikiLeaks also created a searchable database of hacked Sony emails, making it even easier for people to find the already-available documents. The new system also allows users to mark down whether sources need protection. WikiLeaks helped Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, find asylum in Russia. "There was only one publisher that said, 'We want to help the source, we want to make sure he's ok, we want to make sure that, no matter what happens, he has somebody on his side," Snowden reportedly said. "And that was WikiLeaks." Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London after he was accused of sex crimes in Sweden.