Anonymous attack Aaron Barr, who exposed them
On Saturday, the Financial Times published an article revealing the name of a specialist who allegedly identified the personalities of 45 members of the Anonymous group, including their leader named Owen from New York and co-founder of the group named Q from California (about arrests and house searches activists previously reported ). The self-styled Sherlock Holmes is named Aaron Barr, the director of the small company HBGary Federal , which specializes in information security.
Aaron Barr compiled a detailed report on Anonymous’s leadership and organization’s hierarchical structure. According to him, she has several hundred "operatives", including 30 of the most active and about 10 people who coordinate the actions of the group through IRC, Facebook and e-mail.
Aaron Barr was able to penetrate the “enemy” network by creating a series of fake Facebook profiles. He did a great job analyzing the appearance of well-known characters in the open Anonymous IRC chat and the appearance of suspects online on Facebook. This allowed him to make reasonable guesses about who is behind certain nicknames. Then he began to dig further and completed the picture with other evidence.
This operation is part of a project to demonstrate the dangers of social networks and open communication systems for corporate systems. Aaron Barr plans to hold a presentation on this topic in February at a security conference in San Francisco.
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At the same time, the specialist assures that he did not send the names of Anonymous members to the police, although they are known to him. Despite this, Aaron Barr immediately underwent a hacker attack. Anonymous attackers from the Anonymous group have already disfigured his twitter account ( screenshot ), hacked into the HBGary Federal corporate network and shared some sensitive documents ( torrent ). They found the aforementioned 23-page report and assure that it contains simply “random names”. As proof of the document is laid out in open access via hacked Barr twitter. The activists also contacted the owners of HBGary Federal and demanded the dismissal of Aaron Barr, as well as the transfer of his salary to the Bradley Manning Support Fund .
Personally, the president of the company went to Anonymous's IRC chat to negotiate and try to persuade activists not to publish other HBGary Federal documents online that fell into their hands. According to co-owner of the company Greg Hoglund, it will cost their business several million dollars.
Aaron Barr compiled a detailed report on Anonymous’s leadership and organization’s hierarchical structure. According to him, she has several hundred "operatives", including 30 of the most active and about 10 people who coordinate the actions of the group through IRC, Facebook and e-mail.
Aaron Barr was able to penetrate the “enemy” network by creating a series of fake Facebook profiles. He did a great job analyzing the appearance of well-known characters in the open Anonymous IRC chat and the appearance of suspects online on Facebook. This allowed him to make reasonable guesses about who is behind certain nicknames. Then he began to dig further and completed the picture with other evidence.
This operation is part of a project to demonstrate the dangers of social networks and open communication systems for corporate systems. Aaron Barr plans to hold a presentation on this topic in February at a security conference in San Francisco.
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At the same time, the specialist assures that he did not send the names of Anonymous members to the police, although they are known to him. Despite this, Aaron Barr immediately underwent a hacker attack. Anonymous attackers from the Anonymous group have already disfigured his twitter account ( screenshot ), hacked into the HBGary Federal corporate network and shared some sensitive documents ( torrent ). They found the aforementioned 23-page report and assure that it contains simply “random names”. As proof of the document is laid out in open access via hacked Barr twitter. The activists also contacted the owners of HBGary Federal and demanded the dismissal of Aaron Barr, as well as the transfer of his salary to the Bradley Manning Support Fund .
Personally, the president of the company went to Anonymous's IRC chat to negotiate and try to persuade activists not to publish other HBGary Federal documents online that fell into their hands. According to co-owner of the company Greg Hoglund, it will cost their business several million dollars.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/113296/
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