Governments have been a growing target, both Western and in more autocratic states such as China and Iran.
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Initially focused on fighting attempts at Internet regulation and blocking free illegal downloads, it has since taken on a range of other targets including Scientology and the global banking system. Taking inspiration from the hacking and Internet community as well as popular culture - particularly the 2005 film “V for Vendetta” in which a masked hero fights a dystopian government - Anonymous emerged in the middle of the last decade. Targets included the CIA, Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, Japan’s Sony Corp and a host of others including in Ireland and Mexico.
It’s probably not going to be the end of Anonymous but it’s going to take a while for them to recover, particularly from the paranoia.”Īll six were said to be senior members of LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous that took credit for a range of hacking attacks on government and private sector websites. “Just yesterday people were looking up to him. “Sabu was seen as a leader,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of Finnish security firm f-secure. prosecutors bring charges against five more men, including two in Britain and two in Ireland.
authorities revealed on Wednesday that leading Anonymous hacker “Sabu” - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur, aged 28 - had been arrested last June in his apartment in a Manhattan housing complex.Īccording to a newly released court transcript, he agreed to cooperate with authorities in return for likely leniency - helping U.S.
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