Neowin News Feed for: Hacktivists

Anonymous attacks websites in a bid to help Assange

Paul Ferson — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:07:44 +0000

Anonymous have led their latest attack on government websites in an attempt to 'help' Julian Assange, with a particular focus upon ensuring specific targets are disrupted and stay down for some time. Read more...

Hacker group taking over LulzSec name for new attacks

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:30:35 +0000

A cyber attack on the dating web site militarysingles.com has been claimed by a hacker group that calls itself LulzSec, a few weeks after the leader of that group assisted law enforcement teams. Read more...

Hacktivists compromised 100 million users' data in 2011

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:43:54 +0000

A study from Verizon analyzed 855 breach incidents from 2011, and found that 100 million of the 177 million individual records stolen by hackers were taken by so-called "hacktivists." Read more...

Anonymous won't be fighting Mexican drug cartels

Paul Ferson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:13:30 +0000

Anonymous falls back on their plan to attack the Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico after the alleged kidnapping of a member during Operation Paperstorm. Surprised? Read more...

Anonymous takes on the Mexican drug cartels

Paul Ferson — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:19:59 +0000

Anonymous has made a direct threat to the Zetas Cartel in Mexico over the alleged kidnapping of a member in Veracruz. The group promises vengeance, if their demands are not met by November 5th. Read more...