Deixaram de ser "Anonymous"

"The Spanish police said on Friday that they had apprehended three men suspected of computer hacking in connection with recent attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as corporate and government Web sites around the world.

The National Police identified the three as the local leadership of the shadowy international network of computer hackers known as Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for a wide variety of attacks.

Anonymous is composed of people from various countries organized into cells that share common goals, the police said, with activists operating anonymously in a coordinated fashion.

One of the three suspects, a 31-year-old Spaniard, was detained in the southern Spanish city of Almería sometime after May 18, the police said. He had a computer server in his apartment in the northern Spanish port city of Gijón, where the group is believed to have attacked the Web sites of the Sony PlayStation online gaming store.

The same computer server was also believed to have been used in coordinated attacks against two Spanish banks, BBVA and Bankia; the Italian energy company Enel; and government sites in Algeria, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Spain and New Zealand, the police said.

The two other men, both also Spaniards in their early 30s, were picked up in Barcelona and Valencia. The police statement did not make clear the timing of those detentions, but a police spokeswoman said all had occurred recently.

The spokeswoman, who did not want to be identified in accordance with department policy, said all three were subsequently released, without bail, pending formal charges.

They were expected to be charged with forming an illegal association to attack public and corporate Web sites, a charge that carries a potential sentence of up to three years in prison.

The police opened their investigation last October, after hackers overwhelmed the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Web site to protest legislation increasing punishments for illegal downloads.

It was not immediately clear how much of a role the group may have played in the recent attacks on Sony. About a dozen Sony Web sites and services around the world have been hacked; the biggest breaches forced the company, which is based in Tokyo, to shut down its popular PlayStation Network for a month beginning in April.

The Japanese company has acknowledged that hackers compromised the personal data of tens of millions of user accounts. Earlier this month, a separate hacker collective called Lulz Security, or LulzSec, said it had breached a Sony Pictures site and released vital source code.

Sony has estimated that the hacker attacks will cost it at least 14 billion yen ($175 million), in damages, including spending on information technology, legal costs, lower sales and free offers to lure back customers.

Mami Imada, a Sony spokeswoman in Tokyo, said she had no information on the detentions and declined to comment.

The police said that they had analyzed more than two million lines of chat logs since October, as well as Web pages used by the group to identify the leadership in Spain “with the capacity to make decisions and direct attacks.” Members of Anonymous used a computer program called L.O.I.C. to crash Web sites with denial-of-service attacks, the police said.

Among recent attacks, the hackers also brought down the site of the Spanish National Electoral Commission last month before regional and municipal elections. It was that attack, on May 18, that led to the detention of the suspect in Almería.

The movement against the antipiracy law has been closely linked to the broader youth-led political movements that have occurred in Puerta del Sol, the central square in Madrid, and in other city squares since May 15.

These protests have called for a complete overhaul of Spain’s political system and laws aimed at stopping illegal downloading.

Hiroko Tabuchi contributed reporting."


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será verdade? ainda por cima, alguns deles estavam aqui ao lado!?

era bom que fosse verdade,parece ser...

Com a detenção de três dirigentes do grupo Anonymous, a Polícia Nacional espanhola desmantelou a cúpula do grupo de piratas informáticos que já fora considerado uma "ameaça".



Um deles guardava em sua casa um servidor a partir do qual coordenava ataques informáticos contra as páginas electrónicas governamentais, financeiras e empresariais de vários países, refere um comunicado da Brigada de Investigação Tecnológica.

Os três piratas informáticos detidos já tinham previsto lançar um ataque contra os sites dos principais partidos políticos na véspera das eleições de 22 de Maio.

Na casa de um deles, organizaram ataques às páginas da Playstation, BBVA, Bankia, Enel e às dos governos do Egipto, Argélia, Líbia, Irão, Chile, Colômbia e Nova Zelândia.

Em Espanha, os detidos lançaram um ataque, no passado dia 18 de Maio, contra a página da Junta Eleitoral Central e também contra as páginas da polícia catalã e do sindicato UGT.

Os detidos que a NATO considerou uma ameaça à "aliança militar" podem agora incorrer em crimes de associação criminosa puníveis de dois a três anos de prisão

mas a 4 meses atras foi assim e nao adiantou nada...

Ainda faltam muitos, não so em Espanha, essa comunidade esta espalhada por todo o mundo

ao menos já começaram a apanhar alguns, isto tb n dá para apanhar tudo de uma vez

JACK_Daniells escreveu:Ainda faltam muitos, não so em Espanha, essa comunidade esta espalhada por todo o mundo

ñ me digas q tb estão pelo seixal

mas no caso de ser verdade já é um bom começo. se existirem provas vais ver q vai servir de exemplo para os restantes.

lol, Que eu saiba, não...
Não vejo isto a servir de lição, até porque a maioria deles são gajos acima dos 30 anos

Nao acredito la muito nisso. Ca para mim sao uns bunch de gajos que querem ganhar fama, pq se fosse os real anonymous, acham que eles deixavam ser apanhados assim??

Mentira pah.

Ou isso, bem observado, não devem ser eles

Yh tambem aposto que nao, e tabem aposto que sao todos da america e nao da Europa.

Secalhar

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"Hacker Group Anonymous Members Arrested

As part of a nation-wide federal operation, fourteen members of hacker group Anonymous (the group responsible for some of Sony's early hacking woes) were arrested today in the US.

According to a report today on CNN, a senior federal law enforcement official has said that more than 15 search warrants have been executed as part of "an ongoing operation targeting the hacking collective known as Anonymous."

This is a nationwide effort, with warrants being served by the FBI in New York, Florida and San Francisco -- as well as other unspecified areas. In New York, agents targeted a half-dozen locations on Long Island, in Brooklyn and the Bronx, where numerous computers and records were seized as part of the investigation. So far, 14 people have been arrested, and it’s expected that this number will rise today.

Anonymous have been linked with a string of attacks on numerous web sites and organizations, including the CIA, Fox news, the Church of Scientology, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, and have launched denial of service attacks on MasterCard, PayPal and Visa.

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Alguem contra?!?!

que pena

marioscarem escreveu:que pena

Essa é a minha pergunta: "Que pena" é que vão levar? trabalhar para o facebook?

LOOL ou então vão trabalhar para a playstation network depois do que fizeram

nao os metas ai que ainda é pior

Se forem verdadeiramente eles vão ser usados pela entidade que se chegar primeiro a frente e olha ta aí o filme mais provavel.

Fazer uso deles como ferramentas de protecção ou ataque para os seus proprios objectivos. O mais razoavel a meu ver

Seja como for, que sejam punidos com pena máxima e que sejam proibidos de usar um computador para o resto da vida! SCOMrPacMan said.

Nao foram os Anonymous que hackearam a PSN

feffontes escreveu:Nao foram os Anonymous que hackearam a PSN

Pronto confessa

nao sei se ves o TheGUNNShop mas ele leu no site da playstation que foi um individuo em L.A

feffontes escreveu:nao sei se ves o TheGUNNShop mas ele leu no site da playstation que foi um individuo em L.A

EM L.A.?
O NICOLAS CAGE se calhar para pagar os impostos

" Alleged LulzSec and Anonymous Spokesperson Arrested

Police in the UK have arrested an 18 year old man believed to be the spokesperson for notorious "hacktivist" groups LulzSec and Anonymous.

According to a statement from Scotland Yard, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit (snappily abbreviated to the MPS PCeU) arrested an 18 year old man yesterday under suspicion of breaching the UK's Computer Misuse and Criminal Law Acts.

The suspect lived in the Shetland Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland, and is believed to be "Topiary," the spokesperson for notorious hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec. He is currently being questioned at a police station in Central London, and his property is being searched.

A 17 year old male from Lincolnshire in the UK is also being interviewed under caution by police, but has not been arrested.

LulzSec and Anonymous shot to notoriety in recent months following a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on a number of international businesses and intelligence agencies as well as the theft of a considerable amount of personal information from a variety of sites. Several gaming-related sites have been targeted by the groups recently, including The Escapist, Sega, BioWare, League of Legends, Minecraft and EVE Online.

Two earlier arrests, of a 19 year old man and a 16 year old boy, have already taken place in the investigation. The 19 year old has been charged and will be appearing in court in late August, while the 16 year old is set to also return to custody in late August pending further enquiries.

LulzSec's Twitter account has been silent since yesterday. When suspect Ryan Cleary was arrested in late June, the group was quick to deny he was an important member.

Anonymous and LulzSec were in the middle of a joint operation to organize a mass boycott of leading e-payment provider PayPal. "

Fonte: gamepro

anonymous sao porcaria...

eles que sejam todos presos

Mas que foi um grande ataque... foi