The Brazilian offshoot of worldwide hacktivist group Anonymous is setting its sights on Brazilian banks.
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Log-in details from 1.6 million accounts have been posted on the web by hacktivist group Ghost Shell.
The hacktivist attacks were spearheaded by the Anonymous hacker group and its tech-savvy offshoots Antisec and Lulzsec.
It follows the hacktivist collective Anonymous's publication of what it described as the credentials of 4, 000 US bank executives.
The following month a group of masked activists associated wearing masks associated with the Anonymous hacktivist movement staged a protest in Tokyo.
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Maybe one solution is to work with hacktivist and other cyber talented people and learn from them what it takes and learn what really works.
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The nine-year-old site is best known for spawning the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous, and all manner of Internet memes and elements of Internet culture.
The hacktivist group was rarely out of the headlines in 2012.
Meanwhile, copycat hacktivist groups keen to join in the Anonymous-inspired AntiSec movement have sprung up outside the English-speaking web, from countries like Brazil and Spain.
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Transport officials in San Francisco shut down four BART stations in the midst of a protest organized by the online hacktivist and trolling collective, Anonymous .
The last video revealed further divisions within the hacktivist group, announcing that some members of the group still planned to carry out a DDoS attack on NYSE.com.
Narrow the field of victims to only large organizations, which hackers within Anonymous and its splinters target for maximum exposure, and the number of hacktivist incidents rises to 25%.
That division of labor would push the publishing controversy off resourceless hacktivist groups and onto the traditional media outlets that have been fighting and winning free speech battles for decades.
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In close to 75% of cases, hacktivist targets were warned ahead of time that they would face an attack, a tactic that rarely if ever is used by financially-motivated hackers.
An independent investigation by supporters of the hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed in March that a Virginia-based firm called Booze Allen Hamilton was supplying spying software to the government of Azerbaijan.
Sony was the target of a number of cyber attacks last year, kicking off with a distributed denial of service attack by the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous in April 2011.
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The boycott against photo sharing site Instagram just got the support of two big institutions, each spanning the spectrum of the old and new: National Geographic, and the hacktivist network Anonymous.
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The scenario that played out saw a hacktivist group, called "Incognito", threaten and apparently take down high-profile British e-commerce sites as part of a protest against a proposed set of government policies on online privacy.
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Four young men who stand accused of taking part in cyber attacks with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, avoided stricter bail sentences today, which might have blocked them from accessing social networking site Twitter and video messaging site TinyChat.
They added that LulzSec was not part of Anonymous, a larger hacktivist and trolling collective that claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on HBGary Federal, MasterCard and PayPal, though its members have participated in some of these previous operations.
Heavy make-up or a mask will also work, as will tilting your head at a 15-degree angle, which fools the software into thinking you do not have a face, according to an online guide produced by hacktivist group Anonymous.
Last Wednesday, Wells Fargo's chief information security officer, Rich Baich, said companies need to think in advance about how so-called hacktivist groups, which use cyberattacks as tools of political or social protest, might respond to actions they takes at any point in time.
The intruders, a hacktivist group that calls itself UGNazi, ultimately leaked a 1.7 gigabyte trove of data from the British web hosting firm that includes 500, 000 users accounts according to the UK tech news site the Register, including some number of credit card details.
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