'Anonymous' collective hackers intensify cyber attacks across south-east Asia

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December 10th, 2013, 15:09 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs

OpKillingBay: Hackers of RootSecurity Announce Their Support – Video

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Hackers of RootSecurity (r00ts3curity) have published a video to announce their support for Operation KillingBay, the campaign initiated by Anonymous hacktivists in protest against the killing of dolphins and orcas in the Japanese town of Taiji.

“We will kill servers, and leak every database we can get our hands on until you realize the wrong you're doing, we are done playing around, it is time for the games to stop,” the hackers warned.

They’ve already started targeting websites. So far, they’ve leaked information from three Japanese websites: japanarts.co.jp, overseas.sanwa-meter.co.jp and service-js.jp.

However, it’s worth noting that these websites don’t appear to have anything to do with dolphins or the Japanese government.

The initiators of OpKillingBay seem to be determined not to give up until the Japanese government takes action to put an end to what’s happening in Taiji. However, the number of people showing support for the operation on social media websites appears to be decreasing by the day.

 

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5 CHARGED WITH SPRAYING 'ANONYMOUS' SLOGANS AT SUNSHINE PLAZA

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The case against the five men accused of spray-painting slogans like "We are one we are legion expect us" and "TSK", the former referring to the global hacktivist group Anonymous, has been fixed for a pre-trial conference (PTC) on Jan 7.

Mohamad Fadzly Aziz, 21; Danial Ryan Salleh, 25; Muhammad Qamarul Arifin Sa'adon, 22; and Muhammad Fitri Abu Kasim, 24, had allegedly sprayed those words at about 4am on Nov 5, on the pavement outside Sunshine Plaza at 91 Prinsep Link.

Minutes later, the four suspects sprayed a similar slogan on a nearby pillar. At both locations, the four men also sprayed the stylised words "TSK", believed to be a band logo, that they then repeated on the pavement of a taxi stand along Waterloo Street at 4.20am. At about 5am, Mohamad Fadzly and a fifth accused, Muhammad Redzwan Baskin, 26, were suspected to have defaced a wall and pavement at the Scape building at 2 Orchard Link, with a slogan and the logo.

The five, who are facing vandalism charges, returned to court on Tuesday. Muhammad Redzwan told the court that he has applied for legal aid, while Mohamad Fadzly said he would do the same. The remaining three have also engaged legal counsel for the PTC on Jan 7.

Their bail of $15,000 each has been extended and had their passports impounded.

For each charge of vandalism, the suspects face a mandatory punishment of at least three strokes of the cane.

 

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December 10th, 2013, 11:46 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs

California Man Who Hacked the Accounts of 350 Women Sentenced to 5 Years

Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, from Glendale, California, has been sentenced to five years in prison for hacking into the online accounts of at least 350 women. The 27-year-old stole explicit or embarrassing photos from their accounts and used them to blackmail the victims.

According to the Los Angeles Daily News, Kazaryan wrote a letter to the judge, blaming his actions on depression and the use of marijuana.

“The lines between digital life and reality were blurred and out of control for me,” he wrote in the letter to the judge.

The man admitted hacking into the Facebook, Skype and email accounts of his victims. He has also admitted blackmailing them into showing their bodies on Skype, or via photographs. Authorities have uncovered a total of 3,000 explicit images. Not all of the 350 victims have been identified.

Some of the women he targeted refused to give in to blackmail, so he posted the compromising pictures on their Facebook accounts.

The prosecution highlighted the fact that none of the 10 victims who they had spoken to accepted to make a statement to the court because of the emotional impact. However, the defense argued that some of the victims continued to chat online with Kazaryan.

US District Judge George H. King interrupted the defense attorney to point out the fact that the same women made some “very disturbing pleas to please stop.” The judge has noted that the man caused “great fear” and that his conversations were “quite threatening.”

Kazaryan was arrested in January 2013 and charged with 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft. He was taken into custody immediately after the judge sentenced him.

 

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December 10th, 2013, 10:06 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs

Government Website of Ukraine’s Brovary Region Hacked

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An Anonymous-affiliated group called Clash Hackerz has breached and defaced the official website of Ukraine’s Brovary region (brovary-region.gov.ua).

At the time of writing, it appears that administrators are working on restoring the website. The defacement page was displayed for around 13 hours. A mirror is available on zone-h.org.

It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time when the Brovary region’s website is hacked. Back in April 2011, it was defaced by hackers from Azerbaijan.

Numerous Ukrainian government websites have been targeted by hacktivists since the anti-government protests started in Kiev. However, in most cases, the hackers launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks to disrupt the websites, instead of actually hacking them.

While many people are showing support for the protesters in Kiev, some are on the other side of the barricade. On Sunday, unknown actors launched a DDOS attack on the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which provides extensive coverage of the events in Ukraine.