"varies slightly from ""Anarchist Cookbook"" to ""Anarchy Cookbook"" and the topics have expanded vastly in the intervening decades. Many of the articles were attributed to an anonymous author called ""The Jolly Roger"". In 2001, British businessman Terrance Brown created the now defunct website anarchist-cookbook.com and sold copies of his derivative work, titled ""Anarchist Cookbook 2000"". Knowledge of the book, or copied online publications of it, increased along with the increase in public access to the Internet throughout the mid-1990s. Newspapers ran stories about how easy the text was to get hold of, and the influence it may have had with"
"Anonymous (group) Anonymous is a decentralized international hacktivist group that is widely known for its various DDoS cyber attacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations, and the Church of Scientology. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. Anonymous members (known as ""Anons"") can be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film ""V for Vendetta"". However, this may not always be the case as some of"
"as documented by Julian Assange is as follows: ""Hacktivism is at least as old as October 1989 when DOE, HEPNET and SPAN (NASA) connected VMS machines world wide were penetrated by the anti-nuclear WANK worm."" Perhaps the most prolific and well known hacktivist group, Anonymous has been prominent and prevalent in many major online hacks over the past decade. Anonymous originated on the forums of 4chan during 2003, but didn't rise to prominence until 2008 when they directly attacked the Church of Scientology in a massive DoS attack. Since then, Anonymous has participated in a great number of online projects"
"RedHack Redhack (Kızıl Hackerlar, Kızıl Hackerlar Birliği), is a Turkish Marxist-Leninst computer hacker group founded in 1997. The group has claimed responsibility for hacking institutions which include the Council of Higher Education, Turkish police forces, the Turkish Army, Türk Telekom, and the National Intelligence Organization and many other websites. The group's core membership is said to number twelve; the leader's pseudonym is MaNYaK. RedHack is the first hacker group which has been accused of being a terrorist organization and is currently one of the world's most wanted hacker groups. On 23 March 2012: Seven of 17 people have been arrested"
"with over a period of 90 days during the summer of 2006. They are also known for the remote-network-control programs they offer for download. Wicked Rose announced in a blog post that the group is paid for their work, but the group's sponsor is unknown. The group had four core members in 2006, Wicked Rose, KuNgBim, Charles, and Rodag, with approximately 10 members in total. The group's current membership is unknown. Wicked Rose, also known as Meigui (玫瑰), is the pseudonym of the Chinese hacker Tan Dailin. He is first noted as a hacker during the ""patriotic"" attacks of 2001."
"is a computer hacker group that was formed by Josh The God and k00psta in 2011. In May 2012, UGNazi is responsible for hacking the web server of the web host billing software developer WHMCS in an apparent social engineering attack. A member of the group called WHMCS' hosting provider impersonating a senior employee. They were subsequently granted root access to WHMCS' web server after providing information for identity verification. UGNazi later leaked publicly WHMCS' SQL database, website files, and cPanel configuration. The leaked database contains about 500,000 stored credit card numbers. UGNazi member Next claimed that the group targeted"
"estimated 20% of all websites on the Dark Web. Timeline of events associated with Anonymous Anonymous is a decentralized virtual community. They are commonly referred to as an internet based collective of hacktivists whose goals, like its organization, are decentralized. Anonymous seeks mass awareness and revolution against what the organization perceives as corrupt entities, while attempting to maintain anonymity. Anonymous has had a hacktivist impact. This is a timeline of activities reported to be carried out by the group. According to radio host Hal Turner, in December 2006 and January 2007 individuals who identified themselves as Anonymous took Turner's website"
"his arrest in April 2009. Rodag also blogs, but the most recent post is from August 2008. His last post is on IE vulnerabilities that attackers can used to exploit a user's desktop. Network Crack Program Hacker Group The Network Crack Program Hacker Group (NCPH Group) is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province. While the group first gained notoriety after hacking 40% of the hacker association websites in China, their attacks grew in sophistication and notoriety through 2006 and received international media attention in early 2007. iDefense linked the GinWui rootkit, developed by their leader"
"by ""cyber-vigilantes who seek to out anyone who presents with a sexual interest in children"" before police investigations commenced. The Global Television Network report identified the group responsible for Forcand's arrest as a ""self-described Internet vigilante group called Anonymous"" who contacted the police after some members were ""propositioned"" by Forcand with ""disgusting photos of himself"". The report also stated that this is the first time a suspected Internet predator was arrested by the police as a result of Internet vigilantism. The group gained worldwide press for Project Chanology, the protest against the Church of Scientology. On January 14, 2008, a"
"attention of law enforcement to the groups' activities. Some actions by members of the group have been described as being anti-Zionist . Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks in countries including the U.S., U.K., Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, India, and Turkey. Evaluations of the group's actions and effectiveness vary widely. Supporters have called the group ""freedom fighters"" and digital Robin Hoods while critics have described them as ""a cyber lynch-mob"" or ""cyber terrorists"". In 2012, ""Time"" called Anonymous one of the ""100 most influential people"" in the world. Internal dissent is also a regular feature"
"Legion of Doom (hacking) The Legion of Doom (LOD) was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000. During its heyday from around 1984-1991 Legion of Doom was widely considered to be the most capable hacking group in the world. To this day, LOD ranks as one of the most influential hacking groups in the history of technology. Their name appears to be a reference to the antagonists of ""Challenge of the Super Friends"". LOD was founded by the hacker Lex Luthor, after a rift with his previous group the Knights of Shadow. At"
"being ""palladium""; and Jeremy Hammond of Chicago, accused of being ""Anarchaos"". While not a member of LulzSec, authorities suspect Hammond of being a member of Anonymous and charged him with access device fraud and hacking in relation to his supposed involvement in the December 2011 attack on intelligence company Stratfor as part of Operation AntiSec. On 8 April 2013, Jake 'Topiary' Davis and three other LulzSec members pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking at Southwark Crown Court in London. On 24 April 2013, Australian Federal Police arrested 24-year-old Matthew Flannery of Point Clare, who boasted on Facebook ""I’m the"
"Hackweiser HackWeiser is an underground hacking group and hacking magazine founded in 1999. In early-2001 the founder and leader, p4ntera, left the group with saying very little. In April 2001 Hackweiser claimed credit with the start of Project China. The project was a focus of hack attacks based at Mainland Chinese computer systems. The group has appeared in the news due to having defaced well known websites, including websites owned by Microsoft, Sony, Walmart, Girlscouts of America, Jenny Craig, DARE, Nellis Air Force Base aka Area 51, CyberNanny. and countless others. They have been noted by the US Attorney's Bulletin"
"autonomous cells. CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s, initially as the hardcore zine ""Inside Front"", and began operating as a collective in 1996. It has since published widely read articles and zines for the anarchist movement and distributed posters and books of its own publication. Individuals adopting the CrimethInc. ""nom de guerre"" have included convicted ELF arsonists, as well as hacktivists who successfully attacked the websites of DARE, Republican National Committee and sites related to U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. The creation of propaganda has been described as the collectives' core function. Among their best-known publications are the"
"for seeking out pedophiles and collaborating with law enforcement. They describe themselves as a collection of individuals united by ideas. They left a mark with the arrest of Canadian pedophile Chris Forcand. In early November 2011, Anonymous launched Operation Darknet, which targeted websites that distribute and traffic child pornography. Anonymous reportedly leaked the personal details of more than 1,100 pedophiles to Pastebin, and invited FBI and Interpol to investigate the information for leads. Members of the Usenet group Alt.Hackers.Malicious have also been known to target and expose child predators, taking credit for dozens of arrests and convictions. They are most"
"a period of hacking high-profile websites, The Unknown disbanded the group on June 9, 2012. List of hacked websites/companies The Unknowns The Unknowns were a self-proclaimed ethical hacking group that came to attention in May 2012 after exploiting weaknesses in the security of NASA, CIA, White House, the European Space Agency, Harvard University, Renault, the United States Military Joint Pathology Center, the Royal Thai Navy, and several ministries of defense. The group posted their reasons for these attacks on the sites Anonpaste & Pastebin including a link to a compressed file which contained a lot of files obtained from the"
"World of Hell World of Hell (or simply WoH) was a grey hat computer hacker group that claims to be responsible for several high profile attacks in the year 2001. It gained attention due to its high profile targets and the lighthearted messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks. World of Hell first emerged in March 2001, and has successfully attacked the websites of several major corporations. It specializes in finding websites with poor security, and then defacing it with an advice message. It has used well-known zero day exploits in that period of time. The group"
"Apocalypse Production Crew Apocalypse Production Crew (styled as aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW or aPC) was a major MP3 warez organization founded by two individuals known under the pseudonyms ""acid^rain"" and ""Viper"" in May 1997. aPC operated well into the mid-2000s and was subject to raid during Operation Fastlink—a coordination of four separate simultaneous undercover investigations by the FBI, the FBI Cyber Division, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division and Interpol. aPC was known to many as the first organized group to put mp3s onto the internet. Their efforts predated the"
"group that defines itself as ubiquitous. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove material from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008. Project Chanology began its campaign by organizing and delivering a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites. The group was successful in taking down local and global Scientology websites intermittently from January 18, 2008 until at least January 25, 2008. Anonymous had early success rendering major Scientology websites inaccessible and leaking documents allegedly stolen from Scientology computers. This resulted in a large amount of"
"Croatian Revolution Hackers Croatian Revolution Hackers (CRH) was a black hat hacking group originating in Croatia, known for using DDoS, defacement, and other methods against targeted websites in Croatia and neighboring countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, etc.) The group was disbanded in 2014 (exact date unknown). It is believed that CRH was the biggest Croatian hacking group ever. The group consisted of four core members:DiZi , Hunt3r (a.k.a. Josip Mamic) and Meho1337 (Facebook-Meho CroatianHackers) Inco1337 (Facebook-Inco Fiju Fic Ranger) The group attacked websites using mainly DDoS as their choice of weaponry. Their targets were mostly from Croatia, including the"
"on CNN. The school also legally tortured hundreds of others, and five died there. Anonymous hacked the JRC's website and publicly posted the names and addresses of JRC's sponsors, lobbyists, lawyers and supporters, as well as the founder and principal himself, on Pastebin. On March 16 the official website of Monsanto's Hungarian website collapsed and wasn't restored until March 26. In March 2012, people claiming to be a part of Anonymous leaked the source code for old versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Utilities. In April 2012, Anonymous hacked 485 Chinese government websites, some more than once, to protest the"
"their passwords from the latter. In December 2011, AntiSec member ""sup_g"" (alleged by the U.S. government to be Jeremy Hammond) and others hacked Stratfor, a U.S.-based intelligence company, vandalizing its web page and publishing 30,000 credit card numbers from its databases. AntiSec later released millions of the group's e-mails to Wikileaks. Since 2009, dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks, in countries including the U.S., UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey. Anons generally protest these prosecutions and describe these individuals as martyrs to the movement. The July 2011 arrest of LulzSec member Topiary became a"
"Núñez aka RaFa was arrested. The fate of the other members is currently unknown. World of Hell World of Hell (or simply WoH) was a grey hat computer hacker group that claims to be responsible for several high profile attacks in the year 2001. It gained attention due to its high profile targets and the lighthearted messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks. World of Hell first emerged in March 2001, and has successfully attacked the websites of several major corporations. It specializes in finding websites with poor security, and then defacing it with an advice message."
"get on the Bellcore technical document mailing list. Legion of Doom (hacking) The Legion of Doom (LOD) was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000. During its heyday from around 1984-1991 Legion of Doom was widely considered to be the most capable hacking group in the world. To this day, LOD ranks as one of the most influential hacking groups in the history of technology. Their name appears to be a reference to the antagonists of ""Challenge of the Super Friends"". LOD was founded by the hacker Lex Luthor, after a rift with"
"Network Crack Program Hacker Group The Network Crack Program Hacker Group (NCPH Group) is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province. While the group first gained notoriety after hacking 40% of the hacker association websites in China, their attacks grew in sophistication and notoriety through 2006 and received international media attention in early 2007. iDefense linked the GinWui rootkit, developed by their leader Tan Dailin (Wicked Rose) with attacks on the US Department of Defense in May and June 2006. iDefense linked the group with many of the 35 zero-day hacker proof-of-concept codes used in attacks"
"mother. He also said that his family had faced death threats and harassment because of his work, forcing them to change identities and reduce contact with him. In 1987, Assange began hacking under the name Mendax. He and two others—known as ""Trax"" and ""Prime Suspect""—formed a hacking group they called the International Subversives. During this time, he hacked into the Pentagon and other US Department of Defense facilities, MILNET, the US Navy, NASA and Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission; Citibank, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Panasonic, and Xerox; and the Australian National University, La Trobe University, and Stanford University's SRI International. He is"
"21 months and this counted against his sentence. Topiary (hacktivist) Topiary, real name Jake Leslie Davis (born 27 October 1992), is a former hacker. He has worked with Anonymous, LulzSec, and similar hacktivist groups. He was an associate of the Internet group Anonymous, which has publicly claimed various online attacks, including hacking HBGary, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gawker. They have also claimed responsibility for the defacing of government websites in countries such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Tunisia, Ireland, and Egypt. On 24 February 2011, Topiary gained attention after he appeared on ""The David Pakman Show"". He informed the host that Anonymous"
"the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University; and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Jeremy Hammond Jeremy Hammond (born January 8, 1985) is an activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite in 2003. He was convicted of computer fraud in 2013 for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing data to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Hammond was raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, with his twin brother Jason. Hammond became interested in computers at an early age, programming video games"
"Hector Monsegur Hector Xavier Monsegur (born 1983), known also by the online pseudonym Sabu (pronounced Sə'buː, Sæ'buː), is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. Facing a sentence of 124 years in prison, , Monsegur became an informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying the other hackers from LulzSec and related groups. LulzSec intervened in the affairs of organizations such as News Corporation, Stratfor, UK and American law enforcement bodies and Irish political party Fine Gael. Sabu featured prominently in the group's published IRC chats, and"
"Timeline of events associated with Anonymous Anonymous is a decentralized virtual community. They are commonly referred to as an internet based collective of hacktivists whose goals, like its organization, are decentralized. Anonymous seeks mass awareness and revolution against what the organization perceives as corrupt entities, while attempting to maintain anonymity. Anonymous has had a hacktivist impact. This is a timeline of activities reported to be carried out by the group. According to radio host Hal Turner, in December 2006 and January 2007 individuals who identified themselves as Anonymous took Turner's website offline, costing him thousands of dollars in bandwidth bills."
"Internet, a group of web-based activists known as ""Anonymous"" focused efforts against Scientology. Anonymous disrupted Scientology websites and spread anti-Scientologist materials online. In July 2008, ""Messenger Newspapers"" noted, ""A war between internet collective Anonymous and the Church of Scientology"" had been ""fought out largely on the battlefields of YouTube, Wikipedia and other websites"", before emerging to become a movement with protests taking place in front of Scientology buildings. Known as Project Chanology, the movement was ""Organised from a Wikipedia-style website (editable by anyone) and through anonymous internet chat rooms"". ""The New York Times"" noted that through its actions related to"
"of e-mail addresses and credit card information from security firm Stratfor. Reportedly, Anonymous commented that this is because the data was unencrypted, however Anonymous put out a press-release stating ""This hack is most definitely not the work of Anonymous"". Operation Pharisee was an attack organized via social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube against the Vatican website for World Youth Day 2011. It was unsuccessful, despite a denial-of-service attack resulting 34 times normal traffic, and well-documented due to the efforts of Imperva, the security firm employed by the Vatican. Anonymous, along with 4chan's /b/ board, Reddit, Twitter and Funnyjunk,"
"OurMine OurMine is a hacker group based in Saudi Arabia who compromise system or network security. OurMine have hacked celebrity internet accounts, often causing cybervandalism, to advertise their commercial services; for this reason they are not considered to be a ""white hat"" group. In 2016, OurMine hacked the Twitter accounts of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, Pokémon Go creator John Hanke, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose Pinterest was also hacked. In addition to social media accounts, the group has hacked the website TechCrunch. In October, BuzzFeed published an article linking the OurMine"