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International law enforcement is on a mission, hacktivists say: They're out to pay back the anonymous hackers who were part of last year's Operation Payback, most notably in support of WikiLeaks.
Police arrested five young men in Britain on Thursday, and more than 40 search warrants were executed by the FBI. Police in France, Germany and the Netherlands are also part of the effort.
The targets are those who go by the name of Anonymous, a loosely organized band of international hackers best known for briefly shutting down some big corporate websites late last year that had cut ties with WikiLeaks.
Anonymous, in turn, called the crackdown a sad mistake in a statement issued after the arrests, which it called an act of war.
You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. We are united by a common objective, and we can and will cross any borders to achieve that, Anonymous said. So our advice to you, the U.K. government, is to take this statement as a serious warning from the citizens of the world. We will not rest until our fellow anon protesters have been released.
The FBI said that the attacks were carried out with the aid of software the group made available for free on the Internet.
The FBI is working closely with its international law enforcement partners and others to mitigate these threats, the FBI said in a statement.
A team of London detectives who specialize in cybercrime detained the five young men, ages 15 to 26, in raids at homes in central and southern England, Reuters reported.
Among them was reportedly Coldblood, a young Internet activist who says he does not work with Anonymous but explained how the group works in many TV appearances last December.
A source close to Coldblood told AOL News that his TV appearances had angered someone in Anonymous, who then used the name Coldblood when participating in cyber-attacks. Police then arrested the real Coldblood in connection with those attacks, the source said.
An Internet activist with knowledge of the anonymous-hacker underground told AOL News today that police are using old, old techniques that are unlikely to make a dent in the more than 10,000 strong Anonymous community, despite the arrests in Britain.
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/28/anonymous-calls-it-war-after-us-uk-police-go-after-hackers/
Police arrested five young men in Britain on Thursday, and more than 40 search warrants were executed by the FBI. Police in France, Germany and the Netherlands are also part of the effort.
The targets are those who go by the name of Anonymous, a loosely organized band of international hackers best known for briefly shutting down some big corporate websites late last year that had cut ties with WikiLeaks.
Anonymous, in turn, called the crackdown a sad mistake in a statement issued after the arrests, which it called an act of war.
You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. We are united by a common objective, and we can and will cross any borders to achieve that, Anonymous said. So our advice to you, the U.K. government, is to take this statement as a serious warning from the citizens of the world. We will not rest until our fellow anon protesters have been released.
The FBI said that the attacks were carried out with the aid of software the group made available for free on the Internet.
The FBI is working closely with its international law enforcement partners and others to mitigate these threats, the FBI said in a statement.
A team of London detectives who specialize in cybercrime detained the five young men, ages 15 to 26, in raids at homes in central and southern England, Reuters reported.
Among them was reportedly Coldblood, a young Internet activist who says he does not work with Anonymous but explained how the group works in many TV appearances last December.
A source close to Coldblood told AOL News that his TV appearances had angered someone in Anonymous, who then used the name Coldblood when participating in cyber-attacks. Police then arrested the real Coldblood in connection with those attacks, the source said.
An Internet activist with knowledge of the anonymous-hacker underground told AOL News today that police are using old, old techniques that are unlikely to make a dent in the more than 10,000 strong Anonymous community, despite the arrests in Britain.
Full story: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/28/anonymous-calls-it-war-after-us-uk-police-go-after-hackers/
