North Korea may be on the brink of declaring war, but guerrilla operations have already started in cyber-space. Hacktivists supposedly affiliated with Anonymous seized control of the Twitter and Flickr accounts of the North Korean propaganda news agency and started posting criticism of leader Kim Jong-un. As North Korea has hardly any presence on the Internet, the Twitter and Flickr accounts set up by Urimi...

A 37-year-old Anonymous member faces up to five years in prison if found guilty of a DDoS attack against a multinational company, according to IT World. If convicted, he may also be forced to pay up to $500,000 fines. Eric J. Rosol from the US state of Wisconsin allegedly participated in the attack on a website of the Koch Industries back in February 2011. The firm is involved in several businesses, includi...

Anonymous got hacked by Rustle League members that managed to hijack one of the hacktivist group's Twitter accounts. With more than 160,000 followers, Anon_CentralINF was controlled by the anti-Anonymous hacking group for several hours, and it recently became unavailable. “Can't believe you both are fighting against each other instead of sharing powers for more important goals,” users commented. The micro-b...

Burger King’s Twitter account was suspended on Monday after falling into the wrong hands and allowing an unauthorized party to post hateful, obscene and false messages about the Miami-based fast-food chain. The profile picture of the company was also altered to show an alleged merger between Burger King and McDonalds. For approximately an hour, the prankster behind this action displayed on behalf of Burger ...

Hacker group Anonymous posted personal details of some 4,000 bankers online, including phone numbers, job titles, and even passwords along with their “salts”. The data was initially posted on Alabama’s Criminal Justice Information Center website, but was quickly taken offline by its operators. The fact that passwords were listed along with their salts, security experts believe the cyber-terrorist group must...

The Anonymous hacker group announced the hacking of an Israeli-based website, wcites.co.li, by revealing 20,000 accounts containing clear text passwords,  user names, ID’s, emails, gender, and location information. The leak was pledged in the name of #OpIsrael, which started after the airstrikes on Palestine, by a hacker known as c0mandEr0r. Posting the data on AnonPaste, he claims that some 80,000 accounts...

PayPal spent millions of pounds in an attempt to strengthen its defense against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have targeted the company on and off for more than two years. When it started in 2010, Anonymous’ Operation Payback was codename for a series of hacktivist attacks against companies known to oppose internet piracy, but the op soon shifted focus and went against e-commerce big pla...

Anonymous hacked online properties of US broadcaster NBC, music star Lady Gaga, the Australian government, and PayPal as part of their Nov. 5 celebration of Guy Fawkes Day. The defacements, including multiple NBC sites, were dedicated to the man who plotted to blow up the House of Lords in 1605 and whom Anonymous chose as a symbol. “Vote Guy Fawkes — The Only Man Ever To Enter Parliament With Honest Intenti...

A small hacking group, allegedly part of Anonymous Central America, defaced several charity and religion-themed websites in the “name” of Halloween. One of the websites broken by “AnarckHack” is that of a children’s organization based in Caracas, Venezuela. Most websites hacked before Halloween are still down. The hackers also posted online an object-oriented typing text script. Under the title “Halloween s...

Alleged planned layoffs at game developer Zynga caused Anonymous to retaliate against what it calls the “end of the US game market as we know it.” Anonymous claims to have confidential documents which confirm that 1,000 people will be laid off and hiring will be done in “other more convenient financial countries.” Legal action against those who disclose this information will be taken, says the Anonymous tra...