Anonymous: between attacks, threats and recruitment

The Anonymous hacktivistes assert many attacks to challenge the closure of MegaUpload and SOPA and PIPA bills...

As early as Friday and the announcement of the sudden closure of MegaUpload, the collective Anonymous hackers began to retaliate. They were successively brought down the sites of the RIAA, the Hadopi, in the Elysée, but also of the FBI, to Universal, the MPAA and even the Copyright.gov website. And this is a short list, as the DDOS (denial of service) attacks continued throughout the weekend. And this is obviously not to stop since the movement is organized. Vivendi (parent company of Universal) including made costs, victim of a more complex attack transforming page Vivendi.com by displaying the logo of Anonymous for a few minutes with the famous baseline behind which lies the collective: "We are Anonymous, we are legion, we don't forgive, expect us".

And it is not everything, since yesterday evening runs an Internet page via social networks on which can be downloaded from many pieces of the Sony Music (direct download or BitTorrent) catalog. A page on which figure the logo of the Anonymous, which must by there want to remind the Majors if their content is more accessible on MegaUpload, they remain easily downloadable elsewhere on the Internet or in Peer to Peer.

Finally, even if the message remains in check, the Anonymous said there is little have gained access to the servers of very many major Internet sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, etc.) and be prepared to trigger a large-scale attack if their claims (including a return of MegaUpload online) are not heard. An ultimatum of 72 hours with a threat, stating Anonymous also hold the personal information Bank of several million individuals. After verification, it would appear that the message has been posted already 72 hours ago, and that the sites in question have not (yet?) been attacked by the collective. Info, intox, operation "blackout" approach in the Anonymous?

In any case, it would seem that the Anonymous currently recruiting. So far, the Group encouraged users who wished to participate in the movement to install botnet LOIC on their machine, which would be then relay his DDOS attacks. But recently, it would seem that the Anonymous use a JavaScript of LOIC version activated via simple click on a hyperlink. Thus, all Internet users who visited the sites of the Anonymous or on their accounts Twitter have high chance of having enabled without knowing said botnet and their machine can therefore be used by the collective without that they know. Anonymous members do not support this approach which apparently dropped information, which could be very badly seen, even by people who usually support the actions of these hacktivistes are...