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US Homeland Security warns about Anonymous
THE FEDERAL COPPER BUREAUCRACY, the US Department of Home Security has warned organisations to be alert against attacks from the hacktivist group Anonymous.
"Anonymous and associated hacker groups continue to be successful, using rudimentary exploits to attack public and private organisations," reads the introduction to the report (PDF), which both warns against and decries the hackers.
"The actors who make up the hacker group 'Anonymous' and several likely related offshoots like 'LulzSec', continue to harass public and private sector entities with rudimentary exploits and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) commonly associated with less skilled hackers referred to as 'Script Kiddies'."
So, despite making a mockery of US police agencies and their web sites as well as the UK police, businesses, newspapers, and law firms, Anonymous and Lulzsec are nonsense with no real agenda other than to cause trouble.
"Attacks by associated groups such as LulzSec have essentially been executed entirely for their and their associates' personal amusement, or in their own hacker jargon 'for the lulz," adds the briefing.
However, it does concede that there is a chance that attacks could increase in scale and move towards much harder targets and more embarrassing releases and suggests that organisations ready themselves for this.
Coincidentally, the hackers have just released their latest tool for harassing entities, a Java built #Refref tool that will replace the effective but less than sophisticated and easier to trace 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' approach.
The AnonymousIRC account on Twitter was not very impressed by the message. "So according to the DHS, HBGary, Booz Allen Hamilton and ManTech are victims. We consider them Delinquents," it said, adding, "Now they know what Lulz are." µ
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I think that the DHS will soon be able to demonstrate its technical superiority over such "rudimentary" attacks.
And then we'll all have a good laugh (okay, not the DHS IT guys, but the rest of us will).
I hope homeland security is warning the government (themselves). I don't think people have anything to fear from them. Although, I'm sure the government is going to make is seem like the people have something to fear.
"The actors who make up the hacker group 'Anonymous' and several likely related offshoots like 'LulzSec', continue to harass public and private sector entities with rudimentary exploits and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) commonly associated with less skilled hackers referred to as 'Script Kiddies'."
Do they not realize how sad that makes these sectors look by referring to these attacks as “rudimentary” and “script kiddies”? Idiots…If these attacks are nothing but point and click exploits, how pathetic their systems must be to bow down to such “rudimentary” skill.
there's nothing quite like openly mocking a group of hackers who have formulated devestating attacks on some of the world's biggest company networks.
If LulzSec didn't have an agenda before and were just doing it for the 'lulz', they sure as shit do now, just to prove a point.
The DHS is just asking for it. This is one of the most frivoulous, ill thought-out, throwaway pieces of 'advice' I've seen in a long, long time.
The DHS is deliberately acting stupid now eh, lulzsec does hacks it for the lulz, anonymous does DDoS and some hacks for completely different and much less frivolous reasons, and DHS might be daft and bonkers but that's something they are completely aware of, so if they pretend to not know then that's pretty weak, pretty pretty weak.