What follows may have raised a laugh over a Sony. It appears that one of the websites related to the Anonymous hacking group blamed by the Playstation makers for the PSN outage has itself been brought down by hackers in an apparent leadership war.
"We are profoundly (sic) sorry for this drama, and we can't give you a an estimate on when service will resume normally," says a message on the Anonops.in site that refers to the Anonops.net site.
The message continued, "We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named 'Ryan'.
He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. So he organised a coup d'etat, with his 'friends' at skidsr.us .
"Using the networks service bot 'Zalgo' he scavenged the IP's and passwords of all the network servers (including the hub) and then systematically aimed denial of service attacks at them (which is why the network has been unstable for the past week). Unfortunately he has control of the domain names AnonOps.ru (and possibly AnonOps.net, we don't know at this stage) so we are unable to continue using them. We however still have control over AnonOps.in, and will continue to publish news there.
"We would STRONGLY ADVISE all users to STAY AWAY from AnonOps.net and AnonOps.ru, and they should be considered COMPROMISED. Using or connecting to any service on those addresses may put your computer, and by extension your person, at risk."
A leadership battle in an essentially anarchic 'organisation'.
The site has since updated to include the following, "After a couple of minor setbacks and that we are all scattered around the world, trying to coordinate between people when they occasionally have to sleep, isn't always easy. We are almost ready to give a public address to connect to, just getting some last minute testing in.
"Funny how one fairly small IRC going offline for a couple of days allows the media to talk about the 'larger split' in Anonymous."
The last bit of that post refers to an article in The Financial Times by "Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Tim Bradshaw in London", which states that, "security experts and veterans of the organisation see (the hack) as evidence of a split within the hacking group."
"We are profoundly (sic) sorry for this drama, and we can't give you a an estimate on when service will resume normally," says a message on the Anonops.in site that refers to the Anonops.net site.
The message continued, "We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named 'Ryan'.
He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. So he organised a coup d'etat, with his 'friends' at skidsr.us .
"Using the networks service bot 'Zalgo' he scavenged the IP's and passwords of all the network servers (including the hub) and then systematically aimed denial of service attacks at them (which is why the network has been unstable for the past week). Unfortunately he has control of the domain names AnonOps.ru (and possibly AnonOps.net, we don't know at this stage) so we are unable to continue using them. We however still have control over AnonOps.in, and will continue to publish news there.
"We would STRONGLY ADVISE all users to STAY AWAY from AnonOps.net and AnonOps.ru, and they should be considered COMPROMISED. Using or connecting to any service on those addresses may put your computer, and by extension your person, at risk."
A leadership battle in an essentially anarchic 'organisation'.
The site has since updated to include the following, "After a couple of minor setbacks and that we are all scattered around the world, trying to coordinate between people when they occasionally have to sleep, isn't always easy. We are almost ready to give a public address to connect to, just getting some last minute testing in.
"Funny how one fairly small IRC going offline for a couple of days allows the media to talk about the 'larger split' in Anonymous."
The last bit of that post refers to an article in The Financial Times by "Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Tim Bradshaw in London", which states that, "security experts and veterans of the organisation see (the hack) as evidence of a split within the hacking group."
Comments
DrkStr 11 May 2011 12:16
1/3
Oh dear, couldn't happen to nicer folk!
kalps_171 11 May 2011 16:58
2/3
You just know who did this... I mean come on... They were blamed for hacking Sony's PSN... It just has to be some pissed off dude(s)/dudette(s) at Sony getting their own back!!
Hack Wars commence!
Hack Wars commence!
Joe Mac 5367 12 May 2011 22:45
3/3
"We are profoundly (sic) sorry for this drama....
Why (sic) ??
Why (sic) ??