Introduction to Cyber-Warfare - Proiect SEMPER FIDELIS

APPENDIX II. CHAPTER 6: ANONYMOUS TIMELINE265ApproximatedateTarget, hacktivity, and modus operandi(where available)Motivation as stated (where available)July 18, 2011 (Part of) Anonymous launches AnonPlus 155 Social networking site Googleþ bansaccounts of Anonymous members 156July 19, 2011July 21, 2011July 22, 2011July 30, 2011August 5, 2011August 6, 2011FBI arrests 14 suspected Anonymous members #OpPayback 158throughout the United States 157Anonymous claims to have intruded an NATOWeb site and to have garnered “about oneGigabyte of data from NATO now, most of whichwe cannot publish as it would be irresponsible” 159No statement of motivation foundAnonPlus, a social networking site launched by AnonPlus hacked 162Anons, is defaced by the Turkish hacker groupAkincilar (“Ottoman Raiders” 160 ) 161U.S. government security contractor, ManTechInternational Corporation, sees about 400 MB ofdata pilfered from their servers and subsequentlypublished on The Pirate Bay 163#OpAntiSec, FFF; ManTech is hired byamong others government agencies andNATO for providing cyber security; hencealthough no sensitive data were leaked, theintrusion and theft of company data appearto be embarrassing 164Shooting Sheriffs Saturday: Intrusion, data heist #OpAntiSec; in retaliation of July arrests 167(10 GB), and publication in more than 70 Sheriffsand law enforcement-related sites, most of whichwere hosted by Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing Serversand were launched in the past 24 h 165,166Web site of white supremacist organization, Blood #OpBlitzkrieg 169& Honour, suffers intrusion, theft and publicationof personal data (nazi-leaks.net) 168August 11,2011August 14,2011August 15,2011#OpPharisee seeks to disrupt the World Youth Dayin Madrid and slow down the associated Web sitesthrough DDoS attack 170#OpBART is launched and targets the Web site ofSan Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART);for the following day, protest in front of the CivicCenter (the place where Charles Hill was shot andkilled by two BART officers on July 3) is planned;in the following weeks, personal information onBART employees was leaked and Web sites weredefaced 172,173Vanguard Defense Hack (Vanguard DefenseIndustries (VDI)), U.S. Defense Contractor—intrusion and data heist (4713 e-mails, thousandsof documents) with subsequent publication 176#OpPharisee; seeks to bring attention tocases of sexual abuse of children byrepresentatives of the Catholic church 171#OpBART is in response to the shuttingdown of cell phone service 174 in order tocurb an ongoing protest about the violentdeaths of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant IIIand four others since the force’s inceptionin 1972, three of the shootings occurred in3 years between 2009 and 2011 175#OpAntiSec; VDI’s affiliation with lawenforcement agencies (FBI, Infraguard) 177August 23,2011Anonymous endorses the Occupy Wall StreetMovement in a video post on YouTube 178 Shared goals and objectives 179 Continued