This plot is similar to hacktivist agendas over the past year.
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The "hacktivist" collective Anonymous has declared "total war" against Donald Trump.
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A pro-Russian hacktivist group called CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for the attack.
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And it assumes a lot of knowledge about hacktivist philosophy and surrounding issues.
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The notorious hacktivist gang Lizard Squad got an easter egg in the first season.
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Then, the hacktivist hit a Spanish police union and Turkey's ruling party in 2016.
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We look forward to what the future has in store for Hip Hop Hacktivist.
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Popov crafted a new identity— "Hardcore Charlie," a self-described Russian hacktivist aligned with Anonymous.
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But for all this drama, what has Anonymous, and its offshoot hacktivist groups really achieved?
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And then [the book] talks about the other side of it, the [hacktivist] Anonymous movement.
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"They were a really important early kind of group, establishing those hacktivist tendencies," Coleman said.
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At a Vietnamese restaurant, he bumps into a hacktivist friend who looks all of 17.
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Today we hear from Bryan Bethea, the founder of the youth coding event Hip Hop Hacktivist.
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Hacktivist groups Anonymous and New World Hackers were quick to claim responsibility for the online siege.
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Over the following years, the GRU would repeat those false flag "hacktivist" attacks again and again.
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Anyone interested in the Hip Hop Hacktivist vision can contact the organization or register to attend.
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Unlike most hacktivist operations, there's no screed introducing the text file saying who's claiming responsibility or why.
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His emails were subsequently stolen and eventually leaked by the self-described pro-Russian hacktivist group CyberBerkut.
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Of course, this is most likely a jab at Krebs, who regularly reports and exposes hacktivist groups.
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Alkhouri said the forum has been targeted over the past six weeks by anti-ISIS hacktivist groups.
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A post on the website's homepage claimed that it had been taken over by hacktivist group Anonymous.
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Phineas Fisher said that they have yet to receive a submission for their Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program.
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And thus, it's an essential work in framing the impact of this controversial, decentralized, and brash hacktivist network.
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Starting in 2008, Heath Ledger's anarchist, anti-capitalist Joker became the unofficial mascot of 2000chan's Anonymous hacktivist movement.
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Pakistani groups have launched several successful "hacktivist" campaigns throughout the late 1990s and escalating through the 2000s to today.
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Where the original protagonist was a generic disgruntled bro, now we get a fashion-forward and politically motivated hacktivist.
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Right now, Hip Hop Hacktivist revolves around introducing kids to programming and supplying them with resources for self learning.
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Imagine what would happen if a terrorist, a hacktivist or even a common criminal took control of an autonomous car.
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If a graffiti artist starts with spraypaint and a performance artist with their body, then the hacktivist starts with injustice.
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Known by his online avatar, Sabu, Monsegur led the hacking group Lulzsec, an offshoot of the notorious hacktivist group Anonymous.
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CDC ethos could be found in Anonymous, the first hacktivist group to really break out and influence real-world politics.
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If it weren't for Kenny Durkin and Mary Cannon at Tumblr, Hip Hop Hacktivist would still just be a thought.
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If true, this wouldn't be the first time Russian intelligence hackers created a hacktivist persona to throw investigators off their trail.
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In 2015, hackers claiming to be the Cyber Caliphate, a mysterious ISIS-linked hacktivist group, took the French channel TV5Monde offline.
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It's been a shock even for some longtime members of the hacktivist movement, who have opposed the idea of helping authorities.
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Beyond short monologues from minor characters, your main source of human conversation is live-action transmissions from anarcho-hacktivist leader Glitch.
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Though it's unclear what the new policy might mean for a hacktivist group like Anonymous (which is very active on Twitter).
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One example is a breach of Alaska's public elections website on election day in 2016 by the hacktivist known as CyberZeist.
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Though Hip Hop Hacktivist is my vision, there are a few people who played very vital roles in making this happen.
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The defendants would release information under the "false auspices of a hacktivist group calling itself the 'Fancy Bears' Hack Team,'" prosecutors said.
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The notorious hacktivist Phineas Fisher said they paid a bounty of $10,000 to another hacker who obtained and leaked Chilean military emails.
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The hacktivist group also used the social media account takeovers to launch phishing attacks against people connected to those journalists, Meyers said.
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Politico's report doesn't name the "hacktivist collective" that posted the files, nor does an earlier blog post claiming to have first noticed them.
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Most hacktivist "#operations" are backed by a clear mission statement, protesting issues as diverse as whale-hunting and unlawful incarcerations around the globe.
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A source close to the US intelligence community told Motherboard that the US government is actually convinced Phineas Fisher is indeed a hacktivist.
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Even hacktivist collective Anonymous called on Pepper to take down the video, including a vague threat (though that account has now been suspended).
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As created by "Anonymouse," the rodent-sized diorama playfully lampoons the international hacktivist collective Anonymous, as well as that of street artist Banksy.
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On the first episode, Makuch investigates the hacktivist group Anonymous to find out where the collective stands after a string of crippling arrests.
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Perhaps hacktivist groups should be seen as new art collectives, armed with unified branding and an artistic palette of code, links and graphics.
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Bethea credits his team for giving Hip Hop Hacktivist the momentum to launch the event, including the mentors, organizers and hackathon media partners.
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Love allegedly committed his cyber crimes between 2012 and 2013 while participating in a "hacktivist" campaign associated with the famed hacking group Anonymous.
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In the last year, the loosely affiliated hacktivist group Anonymous has waged a number of high-profile cyber campaigns with ostensibly political motivations.
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The student monitored the attack from his cellphone and later told authorities that he wanted to join hacktivist group Anonymous, according to the investigators.
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This information was then disseminated over social media by the hackers who disguised themselves as a hacktivist group called the Fancy Bears' Hack Team.
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That was when Guccifer 2.0, a "hacktivist" US officials believed was part of the Russian influence campaign, began publishing them on the website DCLeaks.
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This week on the premiere of Mr. Robot, the hacktivist collective fsociety made good on its threat to bring down the evil E Corp.
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He previously worked at iSight Partners, a cyberintelligence firm acquired by FireEye in January 2016, where he tracked so-called hacktivist groups like Anonymous.
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A group allied with the decentralized hacktivist collective Anonymous published what it claims are private phone numbers and email addresses for 22 Republican senators.
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Assange is an Australian "hacktivist" who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, with the stated goal of publishing information the powerful were trying to keep secret.
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The term "Hacktivist"--a combination of the words "Hacker" and "Activist"-- is meant to signify an activist who uses programming to impact social change.
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The TV Rain report also said Mikhailov was a member of a hacktivist group called Humpty Dumpty that released hacked information on Russian public figures.
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And while there's still no conclusive proof, the hacker's evolution from an almost clueless hacktivist to a sophisticated, professional leaker, seemed to confirm the theory.
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Perhaps freshest in mind, however, is the "hacktivist" organization's decision to publish Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta's emails in the months before the 2016 election.
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Bryan Bethea is the Executive Director of Hip-Hop Hacktivist, a free social coding event in New York City that caters to high school students.
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And yet that's what's happening in right now in Iceland, where the hacktivist-inspired Pirate Party achieved significant victories in the country's parliamentary elections yesterday.
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Kelly is a young hacktivist who, along with her international team of fellow hackers, attempts to "bring about world peace," according to the latest reveal.
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Team System DZ came to prominence in 2013 when they took part in the Operation Gaza attack, a campaign led by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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On the whole, the artistic goal of making representative images of the internet was confronted, at this conference, by more compelling journalistic or even "hacktivist" methods.
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Correction: A previous version of this article referred to the event as the Hip-Hop Hackathon, when in fact the official name was Hip-Hop Hacktivist.
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The New York campaign got a sizable boost from the hacktivist group Anonymous, which released a short video urging supporters to participate in Occupy Wall Street.
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On this week's CYBER, Lorenzo sits down with host Ben Makuch to take you through the murky history of PhineasFisher's hacks, then the infamous hacktivist speaks.
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Then we talk to Bryan Bethea, the founder of Hip Hop Hacktivist—a free coding event that aims to introduce the tech world to minority youth.
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Christian -- who plays Mr. Robot, the "fsociety" hacktivist leader -- credits the show's creator, Sam Esmail, for having the vision back in 2015 when the show premiered.
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The handmaids are ominous, silent, semi-faceless, and the most powerful protest costume since hacktivist collective Anonymous popularized wearing Fawkes' smirking face over a decade ago.
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On this episode of Daily VICE, we sit down with Ben Makuch, host of VICELAND's new series CYBERWAR, to talk about the notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous.
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His membership in the group was kept secret for decades, until Joseph Menn revealed it in this article, part of his book on the hacktivist group.
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But with or without the hacktivist group that he championed, Brown can't imagine a better time to resume his work as a journalist and radical information agitator.
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According to a press release, Zari is a "grey hat hacktivist" whose combative attitude will probably lead to some juicy conflicts with the other strong-minded characters.
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A hacktivist from Anonymous group has hacked Twitter accounts belonging to ISIS supporters and replaced their jihadist content with rainbow flags, gay porn and pro-LGBT messages.
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Carranza-Walters was introduced to Bethea through fellow Tumblr employee and engineer Kenny Durkin and quickly jumped on board after learning about the Hip Hop Hacktivist mission.
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In the following weeks, a hacktivist calling himself Guccifer 2.0 began leaking documents and emails from the DNC, in an apparent attempt to influence the US election.
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The evolution of Anonymous as we know it today started when the group targeted the Church of Scientology in 2008, and slowly became an hacktivist political movement.
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Phineas Fisher, a pseudonymous hacktivist famous for leaks from high-profile companies, is offering $100,000 for other hackers to steal and leak controversial corporate documents, Motherboard reports.
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When Anonymous declared "total war" on Donald Trump in early March, the hacktivist group set a countdown clock, calling on "everyone to target Trump websites" on April 1.
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This bait-and-switch tactic of issuing a technological threat and then playing a non-technical trick on Trump may seem like a departure from traditional hacktivist methods.
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Indeed, "the FBI assesses most pro-ISIL hacktivist groups use relatively unsophisticated methods and tools to scan for and exploit well-known Web site vulnerabilities," the document continues.
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From Clinton campaign emails revealed by WikiLeaks to DDoS attacks against governments, banks and other corporations, the hacktivist corner of the Net never slept during the past year.
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Police in the UK, in coordination with the FBI, have reportedly arrested a teenager alleged to be the leader of the hacktivist group "Crackas With Attitude," Motherboard reports.
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The hacker, known as Phineas Fisher, published a new manifesto on Friday, offering to pay hackers up to $100,000 in what they called the 'Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program.
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Even back in 2001, journalists were using the term "hacktivist," to describe those involved in the WEF hack, which would much later be applied to groups like Anonymous.
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The Fancy Bear hackers responsible had hidden behind fronts like a Romanian hacktivist named Guccifer 2.0, and a whistle-blowing site called DCLeaks that distributed the stolen documents.
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When I came up with the idea of Hip Hop Hacktivist, my vision was to simply use what kids are familiar with to show them to something new.
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By all accounts, he was an influential member of the hacktivist collective during its most consequential period, but he has so far escaped the fate of his former comrades.
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" Back in March, the hacktivist group Anonymous declared "total war" on then-candidate Donald J. Trump, promising an operation that would dismantle a campaign that "shocked the entire planet.
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" As Vox's Andrew Prokop explains, "Assange is an Australian 'hacktivist,' who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, with the stated goal of publishing information the powerful were trying to keep secret.
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"Our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis," Alperovitch said.
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Their month-long hacking spree prompted the FBI to issue an alert last year, warning politicians and police officers of the risk of getting "doxed" by a "hacktivist" group.
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The Church of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church were among the many targets of the then-nascent and now largely inactive hacktivist collective Anonymous which formed within 4chan's ranks.
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" Sabio Jr. added that Hip-Hop Hacktivist would give the students the understanding that through the tech industry, they can "literally make something out of nothing, and it'll be useful.
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Stone admitted to the Washington Times that he exchanged "completely innocuous" messages with "Guccifer 2.0," a self-described hacktivist who claims responsibility for breaching the DNC's email servers last summer.
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Stone admitted to the Washington Times that he exchanged "completely innocuous" messages with "Guccifer 217," a self-described hacktivist who claims responsibility for breaching the DNC's email servers last summer.
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But when exposed to experience and mentorship through events like Hip-Hop Hacktivist, talented and motivated young students take the first step to become the next generation's tech industry innovators.
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Posted by 周庭 Agnes Chow Ting on Saturday, January 103, 2016 A video from what appears to be the Mexico division of international hacktivist group, Anonymous, has been circulated.
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BEVERLY HILLS — DC's Legends of Tomorrow has added a new character for Season 3: Zari, a Muslim-American hacktivist from the year 2042, played by Iranian-American actor Tala Ashe.
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Now, the program will have to sustain that interest as it continues the arresting story of Elliot Alderson, a mentally unstable hacker and member of the anarchic hacktivist group fsociety.
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And the same time, he added, it's also unlikely that a previously unheard of hacktivist group would pop up, claim responsibility for such a high-profile attack, and then disappear.
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Assange helped distribute documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign by Russian military hackers, who adopted the persona of a Romanian hacktivist codenamed Guccifer 2.0.
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The entire drama plays out in a fake messaging app from fictional corporation E Corp, as you're contacted by characters from the show and get drawn into their hacktivist group.
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Jose-Luis Rivas, a local hacktivist who's has tracked the attacks, said that the fake website had a form to register personal data such as name, email, cellphone and location.
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The hacktivist ethos that CDC pioneered later informed the work of groups like Anonymous, which notably targeted the Church of Scientology, a longtime Cult foe, with its first major action.
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At its height, the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous was the bane of Scientologists, the FBI, CIA, Mastercard, Paypal, Middle Eastern dictatorships, and in its latest effective iterations, even ISIS.
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The "hacktivist" collective Anonymous has brought down several websites affiliated with the Thai police, in protest over the controversial conviction of two Burmese migrant workers on charges of murder and rape.
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The main reason, LaMontagne explained, is that the new data they found discredits the alternative theories that the hackers were actually a disgruntled former employee or just an independent hacktivist group.
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A Pakistani hacking campaign has defaced roughly 22019,000 websites since it first gained traction in 2011, making it the leading so-called hacktivist campaign in recent years, according to new research.
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Many voters are willing to risk it all by choosing the Pirate Party, which has spectacularly captured a chunk of the Icelandic electorate despite its niche origins as a hacktivist group.
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The hacktivist network Anonymous sent shockwaves around the internet this morning with its latest announcement that it has released the names of all the people who worked at Kohl's in 2003.
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A free-spirited, colorful-haired book store employee (Amanita) and her lowkey, computer hacktivist girlfriend (Nomi) seem like an odd pair, but these contrasts drive the beautiful narrative behind their relationship.
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It's unclear what kind of hacking behavior O'Rourke engaged in with the "Cult of the Dead Cow" (CDC) hacktivist group throughout the '90s, which was named after an abandoned slaughterhouse in Texas.
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He told the Washington Times that he corresponded on Twitter with "Guccifer 2.0," the self-described "hacktivist" from Romania who claims responsibility for the breach of the DNC's email servers last summer.
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Carly Chaikin, who plays the hacktivist coder Darlene, tells me one of the biggest challenges is that few of them have any idea what creator Sam Esmail's endgame for the series is.
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He told the Washington Times that he corresponded on Twitter with "Guccifer 2.0," the self-described "hacktivist" from Romania who claims responsibility for the breach of the DNC's email servers last summer.
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The hacktivist website DC Leaks has released a set of emails that reveal how Hillary Clinton's campaign seemed to backpedal from supporting a soda tax after an executive from Coca-Cola bristled.
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Background: 8chan was founded in 2013 by Fredrick Brennan as an alternative to 4chan, the site that first popularized the anonymous-posting format and sparked the emergence of the Anonymous hacktivist phenomenon.
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As part of the hacktivist group in the 1980s, O'Rourke wrote a murder fantasy in which the narrator drives over children, imagined a world without money, and stole long distance phone calls.
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It claimed that the hack had been conducted by the hacktivist collective Anonymous, but there is nothing in the 2.5GB of information released to suggest that members of the group were involved.
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Photo: APAn Arizona man who once styled himself as a hacktivist "Bitcoin Baron" has been sentenced to prison for a distributed denial-of-service attack against the city of Madison, Wisconsin's computer networks.
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In 2014, as Russia was in the process of finalizing its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, a pro-Russia "hacktivist" group believed to be a front for Fancy Bear published Ukrainian military documents.
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In March, as if possessed by the ghost of Joseph Goebbels, printers on more than a dozen college campuses nationwide began mysteriously discharging neo-Nazi propaganda, thanks to white power "hacktivist" Andrew Auernheimer.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning about pro-Islamic State hackers carrying out cyberattacks against the US, but has stated that most of these hacktivist groups use relatively unsophisticated methods.
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She's also part of a hacktivist collective, and you'll be able to see the feeds of the various characters on-screen simultaneously, as if you were in front of the collective's command center.
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Hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec are but two examples of popular accounts where, as far back as 2011, links to confidential data lifted from the servers of major corporations were openly shared.
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Now, after reality spilling onto Mr. Robot, the TV show is spilling into reality: someone created a real piece of ransomware and called it FSociety, even using the fictitious hacktivist group's iconic logo.
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Cult of the Dead Cow Ominous, dark and mysterious, this should've been the inspiration for all hacking groups that graced cyberspace after the Cult of the Dead Cow, the world's first hacktivist group.
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On Sunday, hackers claiming affiliation with the hacktivist group Anonymous fought back against the massive industry the best way it knows how: by defacing the homepage of Canadian gold mining company BCGold Corp.
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Hip-Hop Hacktivist then was a natural way to combine his interest in music and tech and introducing a potentially foreign concept like coding to young people in a language they could understand.
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Just as Russia interfaced with the public about the DNC hack using a cover persona ("Guccifer 2.0"), Russia interfaced with reporters about the WADA attacks as a Polish affiliate of the hacktivist group Annonymous.
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She'd created the account as something between a joke and an experiment — a riff off the hacktivist persona Guccifer 2.0, who at the time was slowly releasing files stolen from the Democratic National Committee.
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The list of potential targets was from thousands of emails of current Salesforce board member and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, which were published last month by "hacktivist" group DCLeaks, the report said.
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"Just because they managed to arrest two members doesn't mean we'll stop hacking them," a hacker named IncursioSubter, who was part of the hacktivist group "Crackas With Attitude," or CWA, told Motherboard on Friday.
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Trend Micro catalogued more than 22019,000 unique defacers and nearly 10 million domains that were compromised over the last 18 years, identifying the top seven hacktivist campaigns and their origins in real-world conflicts.
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"Our team considers them some of the best adversaries out of all the numerous nation-state, criminal and hacktivist/terrorist groups we encounter on a daily basis," CrowdStrike said in a report detailing breach.
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Under the cover story of a hacktivist group known as "Guardians of Peace," they breached the company, spilled thousands of its emails online, extorted the it for cash, and destroyed hundreds of its computers.
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The identity of the two male speakers is unknown, but they're talking about the growing presence of Deadsec — and other "hacktivist" cells — around the world, specifically name-dropping the Middle East, South America and Europe.
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Centering on an Anonymous-style hacktivist collective, Mr. Robot has expanded in recent seasons to explore an intricate Chinese crime syndicate and an alternate present in which much of the conventional banking infrastructure has collapsed.
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Also on Thursday, the hacktivist group Anonymous released what it claimed was Donald Trump's personal information, including a Social Security number and contact details, though some of that was already widely available online or wrong.
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Strip away the newness and novelty of the technological tactics and you find the same old machinations of military and capitalist power, which no plucky hacktivist can disrupt without risking their life, freedom and reputation.
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While we are used to some sporadic voices from the hacktivist collective movement coming forward to the media, they are mostly heard through voice-scrambling filters in short videos announcing Anonymous operations, or from behind bars.
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The proposal hearkens back to Operation Payback, the DDoS attack led by the nebulous hacktivist collective Anonymous in 2010, which temporarily took down Paypal's website in protest of the company's refusal to process donations to Wikileaks.
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They are accusing him of being part of #OpLastResort, a series of online protests that followed the persecution and death of the hacktivist Aaron Swartz and that were seen as exposing frailties in US government systems.
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But U.S. intelligence agencies later revealed the "hacktivist" group was a smokescreen, and the attack was actually sponsored by Iran, partially in response to sanctions imposed against the country by the U.S. and other international organizations.
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While the new dumps by themselves don't appear to reveal anything particularly interesting, they underline the evolution of the Guccifer 2.0 persona from careless, mistake-prone, would-be hacktivist to a more sophisticated, professionally-run leaking operation.
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"It would be unusual in a case like this that both sides wouldn't at least talk about some sort of resolution," Jay Leiderman, an attorney who's represented several affiliates of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, told BuzzFeed News.
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Hacktivist detained: WannaCry was the ransomware virus that stole data from hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe and then blackmailed victims for money with the threat of publishing their personal information or permanently denying access.
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Her circle on Twitter talked excitedly about this hacktivist who had disrupted a major American political party, and she saw chatter that the term "Guccifer 203" was being censored by Twitter (Twitter declined to comment for this story).
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Brown, of course, is something of a legend in the hacker world as a journalist who broke several of the first high-profile stories about Anonymous and later aligned himself closely with the shadowy, loose-knit hacktivist collective.
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The masked hacktivist group gained notoriety at the same time as Slender Man, positioning itself as a champion of the people fighting back against a corrupt and greedy capitalist system trying to infringe on our privacy and freedoms online.
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Earlier in the same year, NBC News released a leaked document showing that JTRIG attacked the hacktivist outfits Anonymous and LulzSec by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on chatroom servers know as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks.
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In this game from publisher Ubisoft, the player explores an open world through the eyes of a young hacktivist, Marcus, who in turn views the world through the lenses of breached security cameras and his laptop-controlled quadrotor drone.
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The results for the same search may vary as each computer is connected at any moment to one of a handful of remote IP addresses owned by the anonymous Chinese hacktivist group GreatFire that Lee contacted to assist with the project.
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Perhaps best known for anti-copyright activism inspired by government crackdowns on online filesharing, the anarchist-leaning Pirate Party has since expanded its platform to take on popular hacktivist issues, from digital rights and privacy to net neutrality and decentralization.
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In some respects, he argues, a Russian influence operation based on stolen files is even easier in 2020 than it was in 2016, when Russian intelligence used an invented "hacktivist" named Guccifer 2.0 to distribute Clinton's stolen files to news outlets.
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In December of that year, analysts at the Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET noted that the GRU hackers they called Telebots, also known as Voodoo Bear or Sandworm, used both hacktivist and cybercriminal fronts in their data-destructive attacks on Ukrainian networks.
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Photo: Federal Bureau of InvestigationImprisoned hacktivist Jeremy Alexander Hammond, a former WikiLeaks source once regarded as the FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal, has been called to testify before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, Gizmodo has learned.
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Rid said that The Shadow Brokers' actions need to be seen in light of all the recent leaks by Guccifer 2.0, a self-defined hacktivist who's more likely a front for Russian spies, as well as another Russian-linked leaking site, DCLeaks.
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"The primary goal of Hip Hop Hacktivist is to use the appeal and influence of the hip hop culture to introduce the tech industry and its opportunities to youth belonging to minority and underrepresented groups," Bethea told VICE Impact in an email interview.
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Ever since the breach was disclosed, all fingers pointed in one direction: the Russian government, which appeared to have mounted a hastily put together cover-up in the form of a sloppy hacktivist who claimed to be Romanian, but couldn't speak Romanian.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous is a recent example, but collective name projects go back centuries to include the British Luddite's "Captain Swing" and "Poor Conrad," the name used by secret peasants groups in rebellion against the Duke of Württemberg in 16th century Germany.
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Williams, who did most of the talking in front of the television cameras and acted as the face of the hunt, was doxxed by the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, and thousands of people, by his estimate, sent him hate messages and death threats.
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We'd also like to develop a weekly Hip Hop Hacktivist show (something similar to what Desus and Mero do with their VICELAND show, but centered around tech and hip hop) to allow kids to see representations of themselves in positions in tech.
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Society and politicians were willing to accept that some accounts were mistakenly suspended by Twitter during that process (for example, accounts belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous that were reporting ISIS accounts to Twitter as part of an operation called #OpISIS were themselves banned).
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Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016, WikiLeaks was working to obtain files from Guccifer 2.0, an online hacktivist persona linked to by Russian military intelligence, the clearest evidence to date of WikiLeaks admitting its pursuit of Guccifer 2.0.
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The catalyst for Marcus joining the do-gooder hacktivist collective called DedSec is that the crime-stopping (and privacy invading) CTOS software suite determined that he was a criminal because he fit a profile: Young, black, and in the wrong places at the wrong times.
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Our event creates an educational ecosystem that has three layers of impact: I want to use Hip Hop Hacktivist as a platform to change the negative perception and stigma of being a programmer that may exist to young people involved in hip hop culture.
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Their keyword is accessibility: If a hacktivist wants to jump in, all they need to do is join the relevant Facebook groups, follow the right Twitter accounts (which are being advertised across social media) and declare their undying hatred for Israel, and they're one of the gang.
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Whether a hacktivist hits what they see as an unethical company, or a likely state-sponsored group steals emails and gives them to journalists for political purposes, reporters are increasingly presented with data that was obtained by a third-party digitally breaking into a target's systems.
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The site, which now claims to have 22 million unique visits per day, quickly grew into one of the darkest corners of the web and eventually became the birthplace of hacktivist collective Anonymous and home to The Fappening, a page devoted to iCloud leaks of celebrity nudes.
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Justin Gray Liverman, a 24-year-old from Morehead City, North Carolina, is accused of being part of the hacktivist group known as "Crackas With Attitude," or CWA, which rose to fame last year for breaking into the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan.
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This is an opinion piece by Bryan Bethea, founder of Hip Hop Hacktivist, a free social programming event, that will take place on June 24 in New York, that uses the influence of hip hop culture to introduce tech industry opportunities to minority and underrepresented youths.
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I cannot express what it has been like to watch his star rise, to see him paraded around by tech and hacktivist communities as a defender of human rights and watch as people took his word as gospel, while at the same time knowing he was hurting women.
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Quickly, rumors spread that the cops might have gotten the people behind the mysterious and notorious hacktivist Phineas Fisher, who had claimed responsibility for the attack on the Catalan local police and was also behind the more famous breaches on the spyware vendors FinFisher, Hacking Team, and on the Turkish government.
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"Anyone else wondering if these dozens of gas explosions in MA might be some kinda of cyber attack targeting SCADA systems?" tweeted the The Jester, a hacktivist with 180,000 followers who has gotten way more attention than he deserves, in a thread that makes a lot of incredibly baseless assumptions.
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And finally, because other factions have relationships with each other too: When I tried to make peace with Blue Sunlight (by "investing" in the church, as they requested), I got a call from the leader of hacktivist collective GUEST, who reminded me that investments looked like endorsements from the outside. Yikes.
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Indeed, maybe our greatest democratic gap of the modern era is found in the fact that humans can produce a big bang of information every day, but our democracy, as the Argentine democratic hacktivist Santiago Siri has stated, can only process one bit of information per citizen roughly every four years.
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In the future, my team and I hope to build a braintrust for Hip Hop Hacktivist that comprises key individuals who we feel understand our mission -- people who can help guide us and give us access to grow in a way that further bridges the gap between hip hop culture and technology.
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Meanwhile, the information stored by campaigns, which includes donor information, internal emails, opposition research and vulnerability studies, is quite sensitive, and makes them attractive targets for powerful parties such as nation-states, intelligence agencies, hacktivist groups and black-market hackers, all interested in swaying the elections in their favor or laying hands on valuable information.
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And Mr. Doctorow knew that Mr. Snowden was a fan of his work from watching the documentary "Citizenfour" (in one scene, Mr. Snowden stands in his hotel room next to a table that holds a copy of Mr. Doctorow's novel "Homeland," which features a hacktivist protagonist who is deciding whether to leak incriminating government documents).
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Directed by eclectic, Oscar-winning filmmaker Bill Condon, and written by Josh Singer (who went on to co-write the Oscar-winning screenplay for Spotlight and the Oscar-nominated The Post), The Fifth Estate tells the story of how Julian Assange went from being an obscure, lone-wolf hacktivist to shaking up the media and the world order with his website WikiLeaks.
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"Over the past 18-24 months, an unknown number of online extremists have conducted 'hacktivist' cyber operations—primarily Web site defacements, denial-of-service attacks, and release of personally identifiable information (PII) in an effort to spread pro-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) propaganda and to incite violence against the United States and the West," the FBI document obtained by Motherboard reads.
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The well-researched piece does its best to draw a line from a storied hacktivist collective to a not-especially radical or promising presidential hopeful, but from the jump it admits that the erstwhile Ben Affleck lookalike never quite met the common definition of "hacker":There is no indication that O'Rourke ever engaged in the edgiest sorts of hacking activity, such as breaking into computers or writing code that enabled others to do so.
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