FBI Raids Homes of Suspected 'Anonymous' Hackers

[Ringel05]

The FBI is executing search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned.

More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories, removing at least one laptop from the premises.

The raids at two Long Island, N.Y., homes and one in Brooklyn, N.Y., were ongoing Tuesday morning.

Jordan's system was identified as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service attack against several companies, a law enforcement official told FoxNews.com.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected 'Anonymous' Hackers - FoxNews.com

 

[California Girl]

Another 'lie' by Faux News?

*Sarcasm off*

 

[whitehall]

Let's see, Sarah Palin's E-mail account was hacked two years ago by the group called "anonymous" and Holders "justice dept" is finally getting around to doing something about it after the UK hacking scandal. Political coverup?

 

[uscitizen]

This is about Palin????

 

[California Girl]

This is about Palin????

No, it's about hypocrisy.

 

[uscitizen]

This is about Palin????

No, it's about hypocrisy.

elaborate on the hypocrisy angle please.

 

[waltky]

Not so anonymous after all...

Hacker arrests: Why Anonymous might not be so anonymous
July 21, 2011 - This week's arrests of 21 members of Anonymous in the US and Europe show that, given time and resources, cybersleuths can track down hackers. But doubts remain over whether authorites caught any big fish.

The arrests of 21 individuals Tuesday connected with the Anonymous group and other computer hackers suggest that the suite of digital tools that hackers use to obscure their identities is not foolproof and can be cracked with significant sleuthing. Questions remain about whether the 14 are relatively novice hackers that were easy to track. But often the greater question in solving an Internet attack is not whether a breakthrough can be made, but rather whether it is worth the time and resources needed.

Often, perpetrators are caught bragging on online forums. Other are caught making elementary mistakes. But finding and nabbing the top hackers takes time and money. "If [hackers] use the right privacy measures to mask their Internet service provider, it would take international cooperation and a lot of hard work to get at them," says Ashera, the pseudonym for a cyber security investigator at Backtrace Security, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "These guys say, 'Ok, I've got my IRC, my chain proxies, I'm logged into a shell, and I'm logged onto another computer, too….’ But they're not as anonymous as they think they are."

The 21 people arrested Tuesday come from 10 states, the District of Columbia, Britain, and the Netherlands. Of those, at least 16 were linked by authorities to cyberattacks against PayPal last year, in which hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous clogged access to the PayPal website for customers. Anonymous and an affiliated hacker group called LulzSec have been taunting law enforcement authorities for months, breaking into corporate websites like Monsanto, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Sony, and PBS – and then bragging about it.

That bravado can sometimes be the undoing of hackers. A student at the University of Central Florida, for example, tweeted victory message from a Twitter account dubbed "voodooKobra" after he broke into a server belonging to Infragard, a site for companies and federal authorities involved in homeland security, and stole three files. Authorities used the information in the tweet and other digital snippets to track down the culprit.

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[waltky]

Hackers hackin' into police stations...

Criminal Hackers Set Sights on Police Stations
April 12, 2016 - FBI says there is a fast-growing threat to vulnerable individuals, companies and low-profile critical infrastructure, from hospitals and schools to police stations.

Three weeks ago, a debilitating digital virus spread quickly in computer networks at three Southern California hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare Services. Using a pop-up window, hackers demanded about $17,000 in the hard-to-trace cybercurrency called Bitcoin to destroy the virus they had implanted. The virus had encrypted medical and other data so it was impossible to access. The company says it defeated the cyberattack without paying a ransom. But it acknowledged some cancer patients were temporarily prevented from receiving radiology treatments, and other operations were disrupted briefly while computer systems were down.

The attempted extortion by criminal hackers was the latest case of what the FBI says is a fast-growing threat to vulnerable individuals, companies and low-profile critical infrastructure, from hospitals and schools to police stations. The security breaches -- which temporarily disable digital networks but usually don't steal the data -- not only have endangered public safety, but revealed a worrying new weakness as public and private institutions struggle to adapt to the digital era. So-called ransomware attacks have surged so sharply that the FBI says companies have paid more than $209 million in ransom payments in the first three months of this year -- compared with $25 million in all of 2015. The FBI has not reported any arrests.

Government officials are particularly concerned that hackers could lock up digital networks that run the electrical grid and oil and natural gas lines, said a Department of Homeland Security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments. "Ransomware is a growing threat to businesses and individuals alike," Chris Stangl, a section chief in the FBI's cyber division, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. Companies should train employees not to open digital attachments or to click on unfamiliar Web links in emails that might contain viruses or other malware, Stangl said. They also should back up critical data and use up-to-date virus detection software.

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[Two Thumbs]

a 6 y/o thread and they are still going strong

 

[waltky]

Goes to show how timeless and revelant they are.

 

[MikeK]

This is about Palin????

It's about who, or in this case, what is being hacked. The victims in this example are companies, and inasmuch as the United States is and has been for some years a corporatocracy it should come as no surprise that the law-enforcement bureaucracy is exceptionally and aggressively responsive to its complaints.