16 year old threatens ISPs with cyber attack Anonymous

A 16-year-old boy has confessed that he is the maker of a Anonymous video on YouTube last week. In the video the maker threatened ISPs and government websites in the Netherlands with a massive cyber attack by Anonymous.  The National Police Agency had already come to the conclusion that in that corner no activities were developed for a large-scale cyber attack.

The boy has contacted a special high tech team of the National Investigation Service after a call from the police in the media. The 16-year-old told the police that it was a one-man operation and that it had nothing to do with Anonymous. He has not thought about the consequences of his actions and has apologized, said the KLPD.

Anonymous launched attack Spanish government website

Anonymous has Wednesday launched an attack on the primary website of the Parliament of Spain and the web site of the Spanish National Police in response to the senseless violence used against peaceful protesters by the Spanish National Police.

Anonymous has removed from the Internet the web site of the Spanish National Police located at www.policia.es - and will keep it offline so long as continue the brutality.

The attack on the primary website of the Parliament of Spain include not only DdoS and hacking, but also Black Fax & E-Mail bombs. With this attack Anonymous will removing the Parliament of Spain from the Internet entirely.

For the second day running, tens of thousands of demonstrators led by the so-called indignados, or outraged, descended on the square – some 100 meters from Spain’s Congress building. Many in the crowd chanted "government, resign!" while hoisting up placards bearing the slogan “No” in opposition to the country's austerity program. The demonstrators are calling for new elections, saying the proposal of deeper budget cuts proves the ruling Popular Party has lost its legitimacy by failing to keep its promises. Many protesters were particularly enraged that the government was making cuts to health, education and public sector salaries while pumping funds into the country's ailing banking sector to keep it afloat.

Anonymous attacks British government sites

Anonymous has attacked the websites of the UK Ministry of Justice and the Department for Work and Pensions corporate website, royal.gov.uk, gateway.gov.uk, statistics.gov.uk and number10.gov.uk. The attack is a protest for Britain’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The assault on the websites is being carried out under a campaign branded #OpFreeAssange.

Earlier this week Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. Foreign minister Ricardo Patino accused the UK of making an "open threat" to enter its embassy to arrest Mr Assange.


A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice website said it "had been experiencing some disruption". "This is a public information website and no sensitive data is held on it. No other Ministry of Justice systems have been affected," she said in a statement. "Measures put in place to keep the website running mean that some visitors may be unable to access the site intermittently. We will continue to monitor the situation and will take measures accordingly," she added.

Anonymous shut down Australian spy agency

Anonymous have shut down a computer server belonging to Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO, reportedly briefly closing down access to its public webpage. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) acknowledged some disruption to its website.

"ASIO is aware that there may have been some technical issues with its public website," a spokesperson said.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that ASIO's website was down for at least 30 minutes Friday morning, but it appeared to be loading normally Friday afternoon. Operation Australia, which has its own @Op_Australia Twitter stream said it would "stop the attacks at 10pm Aus. BUT we will never stop watching!".

The personal and departmental websites of Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, the ruling Labor party's South Australia branch and Tasmania police sites were also targeted in the plot. It appeared linked to a controversial government plan to store the web history of all Australians for up to two years which was shelved Thursday until after the 2013 elections.

Anonymous attacked Dutch hosting provider

Anonymous has attacked the Dutch hosting provider Ecatel this week because the company host child pornography. The alleged illegal sites were discovered during Operation PedoChat.

Ecatel confirms the attack, "on one of the servers there was a downtime about two hours" said a spokesman.

Anonymous send a message to Ecatel before and after the attacks and received a strange response from a Ecatel employee Look here

The spokesman confirmed that this is a message from Ecatel. The Dutch hosting provider came recently in the news because the company hoste the Grum botnet on two servers. They were taken down after a blog posting of a security researcher.

Anonymous attacked Australian government websites

Anonymous took at least 10 Australian government websites offline in a series of escalating attacks over proposed changes to privacy laws. Anonymous has warned it will continue the attacks on “.gov.au” sites until any plans to force ISPs to store user data and make it further available to security services are shelved. The attacks started after Prime Minister Julia Gillard answered policy questions via webcam in an online Google+ Hangout session on Saturday.

“The Australian Government is attempting to strip away its citizens’ internet rights by forcing them to surrender passwords and internet usage data,” Anonymous said via email to a news site. “Unless the Government starts acting in the best interest of its people, it will continue to bring the noise.”  “We no longer know about many of the activities of our governments while our governments have the means to accumulate unprecedented vast banks of data about us.”

A spokesman from the Queensland Premier’s office confirmed hackers had attacked a number of State Government and non-Government websites on an external service provider’s server on Sunday, including several that were no longer operational. He said the external service provider had since rebuilt the server and applied new security patches to remove the vulnerability.