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LulzSec Hack of the Day

Mar. 27, 2012

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Hacker group LulzSec recently announced it was reassembling for more hacks after former leader Sabu was revealed as an FBI informant and several members of the group were arrested.

The new LulzSec launched its first attack yesterday, hacking dating website Military Singles and making off with email addresses and passwords for 170,937 accounts.

When the administrator of the site — which is run by a company called ESingles — questioned whether it had actually been hacked, LulzSec posted the account info to pastebin and placed the above image on the Military Singles homepage.

On LulzSec’s new Twitter account, the group denied it was associated with any of the planned hacks mentioned on a supposedly LulzSec-affiliated YouTube account, writing, “There is no schedule of the hacks we will do everything spontaneously …”

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Anonymous Revives LulzSec of the Day

Mar. 21, 2012

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Although LulzSec leader Sabu has been exposed as an FBI informant and the entire existence of the group may have been a government operation, members of Anonymous have decided to take the Lulz Boat out for another spin, attaching the LulzSec name to a new set of planned operations.

A YouTube account called FawkesSecurity has posted a video announcing the return of LulzSec, with the revived group’s first attack scheduled for April 1st.

Other upcoming operations, including a plan to “target national infrastructure” this December as part of “Operation Mayhem,” are listed on the @fawkessecurity Twitter account.

Before that, though, Anonymous and the new LulzSec are aiming at security firm Imperva, which recently released a report claiming to reveal details of Anonymous’ failed 2011 attack on the Vatican website.

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AntiSec Theory of the Day

Mar. 16, 2012

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Some members of Anonymous now believe that Operation AntiSec, the hacking movement started last summer with goal of hitting major government and corporate targets, was a trap created and supervised by the FBI and recently-outed informant Hector “Sabu” Monsegur.

YourAnonNews has created a detailed timeline to prove their point, but the key fact is that Sabu was arrested on June 6, 2011, and returned to the Internet weeks later to announce the formation of AntiSec, billed as a joint venture between Anonymous and Sabu’s Lulz Security.

The timeline lists several AntiSec attacks that Sabu participated in or directly encouraged after he had signed a plea bargain promising to “commit no further crimes,” and YourAnonNews’s conclusion is that all of those attacks were carried out under FBI supervision.

Now that Sabu has been revealed as an informant, his repeated calls for fellow hackers to join the #AntiSec IRC channel now seem like attempts to lure them into an FBI-monitored trap.

Although the sequence of events may not be hard evidence that AntiSec was entirely an FBI invention, it’s hard to imagine Sabu getting away with it post-arrest if he didn’t have the approval of his federal handlers.

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Follow Up of the Day: Anonymous Hacks Panda Security, Posts Open Letter to Sabu

Mar. 7, 2012

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Members of Anonymous have responded to yesterday’s revelation that LulzSec leader Sabu is now an FBI informant by — what else? — hacking the website of a security firm.

Anonymous defaced a dozen sites belonging to Panda Security, a company that allegedly helped Interpol take down 25 alleged Anons last month.

The attack came in response to a Panda Security blog post saying that, without Sabu, Anonymous’ capabilities would be limited to simple DDoS attacks. The Panda blog is currently down.

“LOL HE ASKED FOR THE LULZ!!!! HERE IT IS THE LULZ…,” Anon wrote on the Panda website.

Anonymous also took the opportunity to address Sabu directly, writing:

Yeah yeah, we know, Sabu snitched on us. As usually happens FBI menaced him to take his sons away. We understand, but we were your family too. (Remember what you liked to say?)… It’s sad and we can’t imagine how it feels having to look at the mirror each morning and see there the guy who shopped their friends to police.

It seems Sabu wasn’t the only Anonymous operator capable of more than a DDoS attack.

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Follow Up of the Day: Anonymous Reacts to LulzSec Arrests

Mar. 6, 2012

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Court papers released earlier today have confirmed that LulzSec leader Sabu — now revealed as 28-year-old Hector Xavier Monsegur of New York City — became an FBI informant after he was arrested last August, and his information led to today’s arrests of other top LulzSec members.

According to the papers, the arrested LulzSec members are being charged with “conspiracy to commit computer hacking” in connection with attacks on Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Fox, the Tribune Co., the U.S Senate, and computers belonging to several foreign governments.

Sabu was also charged with conspiracy last year, and is currently free on $50,000 bail.

Anonymous members reacted to Sabu’s betrayal on Twitter, pointing out that Anon “is an idea, not a group. There is no leader, there is no head.”

Frequent Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown also weighed in, tweeting, “My apartment was raided this morning by the FBI. Feds also came to another residence where I actually was. Sabu is a traitor.”

He later clarified that he hadn’t been arrested, and that the FBI was looking for his laptops.

Brown also commented to the AP on Sabu’s decision to turn informant.

“He was an admired Anon,” he said. “He’s been a leader. People came to him with information. God knows what else he told them.”

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Anonymous and LulzSec Arrests of the Day

Sep. 22, 2011

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Anonymous and LulzSec Arrests of the Day

Anonymous and LulzSec Arrests of the Day: The FBI arrested two alleged members of Anonymous and LulzSec in San Francisco and Phoenix this morning.

Suspected LulzSec member Cody Kretsinger, a 23-year-old Phoenix resident who goes by “recursion” online, is accused of hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this year and erasing his hard drives to hide the evidence.

In San Francisco, a homeless hacker suspected of being a member of Anonymous was arrested for allegedly hacking Santa Cruz County government websites.

The FBI also carried out related search warrants in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, but didn’t announce any arrests in those states.

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LulzSec Unmasking of the Day

Aug. 1, 2011

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LulzSec Unmasking of the Day

LulzSec Unmasking of the Day: The recently-arrested man accused of being LulzSec leader Topiary is 18-year-old Jake Davis of the Shetland Islands.

Davis turned up for his first court appearance today in mirrorshades and a black t-shirt. He’s accused of carrying out a DDoS attack against SOCA, the UK’s Serious and Organized Crime Agency, and of coordinating other attacks.

The evidence reportedly found on Davis’ laptop included the fake Rupert Murdoch obituary posted on The Sun‘s website when it was hacked last month, and the personal details of 750,000 people.

He was given conditional bail, and his next court date will be August 30th.

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LulzSec Bait-and-Switch of the Day

Jul. 28, 2011

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Alleged LulzSec Scheme of the Day

LulzSec Bait-and-Switch of the Day: Scotland Yard arrested key LulzSec member “Topiary” yesterday … or did they?

DailyTech is reporting that there’s plenty of evidence pointing to the possibility that the 19-year-old suspect in custody is a troll framed to take the fall for the real Topiary, who remains at large in Sweden.

Supposed LulzSec dox released last month list Topiary as Daniel Sandberg of Sweden (pictured above in an Anonymous press interview), and a chatlog released by hacker (and sometimes-rival of LulzSec) th3j35t3r (“The Jester”) appears to reveal that Sandberg stole the “Topiary” identity from “a troll” last December in an effort to misdirect law enforcement.

“Just hoping that they’ll take the bait. The f**ker has been using Topiary for like a year, trolling everyone for no reason. So now we troll him, hope he’s getting raided,” Sandberg says in the log.

This evidence should all be taken with a grain of salt, because chatlogs and dox are pretty easy to fake. There’s a strong possibility that the police arrested the correct Topiary, but there’s also a chance that they didn’t.

[dailytech]

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LulzSec Arrest of the Day

Jul. 27, 2011

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LulzSec Arrest of the Day: Scotland Yard says its cybercrime unit has arrested LulzSec spokesman “Topiary,” who runs the LulzSec Twitter account and has given a handful of recent interviews.

The 19-year-old Topiary was arrested at an address in Scotland’s Shetland Islands Wednesday. LulzSec hasn’t publicly commented on the arrest, and no LulzSec tweets have been posted since it was reported.

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Anonymous vs. NATO of the Day

Jul. 21, 2011

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Anonymous vs. NATO of the Day

Anonymous vs. NATO of the Day: Anonymous appears to have hacked into NATO, posting a PDF with Restricted security status as proof.

AnonymousIRC on Twitter:

Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting data.

The AnonymousIRC account followed that up with another tweet claiming that “we are sitting on one gigabyte of data from Nato now.”

Meanwhile, Anonymous and LulzSec issued a joint statement to the FBI, responding to the recent arrests of 14 alleged Anonymous members.

Here’s the key section:

We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.

[thenextweb / @lulzsec]

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