Not knowing that Anonymous is an idea and not a group, UK’s General Rapporteur-Lord Jopling has suggested in a report to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly that action should be taken to stop them before really dirty secrets are exposed serious damage is done.
Anonymous is becoming more and more sophisticated and could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files.
According to reports in February 2011, Anonymous demonstrated its ability to do just that. After WikiLeaks announced its plan of releasing information about a major bank, the US Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America reportedly hired the data intelligence company HBGary Federal to protect their servers and attack any adversaries of these institutions. In response, Anonymous hacked servers of HBGary Federal’s sister company and hijacked the CEO’s Twitter account.
Today, the ad hoc international group of hackers and activists is said to have thousands of operatives and has no set rules or membership. It remains to be seen how much time Anonymous has for pursuing such paths. The longer these attacks persist, the more likely countermeasures will be developed, implemented, the groups will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted.
All I can say is, good luck, we’re behind 7 proxies.
