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Home » Special Operations » Anonymous becomes Anon Hamas and Attacks Israel

Anonymous becomes Anon Hamas and Attacks Israel

by Laura Walker · November 23, 2012 · Posted In: Special Operations
Anonymous becomes AnonHamas and Attacks Israel
This week Israel decided 700 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel by Hamas for the year 2012 was enough to take some action. Israel opened Operation Pillar of Defense with a stunning targeted strike that killed Hamas’s military mastermind, Ahmed Al-Jaabari.  Since that strike, Hamas fired numerous more rockets at Israel, including attempted strikes on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.  Israel has been pounding the holy heck out of Hamas, and Saturday morning they landed a direct hit on the Hamas Cabinet headquarters in Gaza.

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As the rockets escalate, Israel called up over 75,000 reserve forces and is positioning on the Gaza border with ground troops.   And early Saturday morning there were reports of rockets fired into Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Penisula with the Mujahideen Shura Council, an al-Qaeda affiliate, claiming credit.  The Sinai Peninsula is a hotbed of weapons smuggling for jihadis and chances are beyond good they have a ready stockpile to rummage through in the quest to annihilate Israel.

Amidst the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Hacker collective Anonymous opted to take sides and issued a threat to target Israel via a YouTube video:

And as threatened, Anonymous began immediately attacking Israeli websites including the websites for the Israel Defense Forces, the prime minister’s office, Israeli banks, airlines and security companies by flooding them with Web traffic, in a campaign they called #OpIsrael.

The propensity for Anonymous to support terror activities and organizations, despite repeated pastebin denouncements, is a symptom of the fatal flaw of the Anonymous model: if anyone can join, anyone just might.

Or as Rusty Shackleford of The Jawa Report put it:

“Anonymous has chosen sides. And if there’s one thing we know about the IDF it is that their hackers are better than Anonymous.

Just ask anyone in an Iranian nuclear research facility.

Welcome to the big leagues #anonymous. You didn’t even bring a knife to this gun fight. You brought the cannolis.”

All of  which earned them their well deserved new nickname: #AnonHamas (credit: @mildev).

Featured Image: Darren Whiteside / Reuters

 

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jeffreycarr
jeffreycarr 5pts like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 5 Like

Anonymous has only ever exhibited two skills: DDoS attacks which are pretty much automated and SQLi attacks which relies on the website owner not securing his website properly (this includes government websites too). You can't do much about DDoS but the upside is that they don't last forever and present a temporary inconvenience. The SQLi attacks are much worse because it allows Anonymous to get their hands on everything stored on the web servers including usernames and passwords and possibly emails, however if webmasters were more security-conscious, they could stop that attack cold. 

RobertRota
RobertRota 5pts

can you film yourself with this mask and post anonymously on the Internet? That is the whole point, the ridiculousness of digital identity. 

SEAN SPOONTS
SEAN SPOONTS 5pts like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

I'm sure Mossad is just quaking in their boots at the prospect of irking these Cheetoos encrusted fan-boys still living in their mom's basement.

HugeFan
HugeFan moderator 5pts

@SEAN SPOONTS my thoughts exactly SPOONTS. This guy believes that Israel is gonna allow any mischief to go unpunished? Wow, Israel might not be a bear but they're definitely Honey Badger status and they follow the Old Testament: 'eye for an eye' and all that... Bottom line: you're plain dumb or dangerously insane to mess with Israel. He'll get his comeuppance, no doubt.

unclesam319
unclesam319 5pts

 @SEAN SPOONTS 

Their main method of attack, the DDoS attack, indicates little to no technical expertise.  One can participate in a DDoS attack by doing something as simple as sitting on the target's webpage and hitting the refresh button repeatedly...

kirkafmo
kirkafmo 5pts like.author.displayName 1 Like

Israel is exercising exceptional restraint. Can you imagine what we would do if San Diego , Tucson or Mcallen, Texas was attacked by missiles.

Sonnys Mom
Sonnys Mom 5pts

 @kirkafmo  Under Obama?  Label it "random violence" and call it a day.

LauraWalkerKC
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 @kirkafmo Why yes, yes I can ;)

Old PH2
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Informative article over at the Small wars Journal about information warfare in Gaza:

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/zawahiri-and-gaza%E2%80%99s-information-terrain

 

Brandon and other SOFREP readers need to look at this, it is a very accessible explanation of controlling the information space that could be a critical step forward in warfare.  Definitely gets inside the OODA loop!  

jrexilius
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Love the quote "You didn’t even bring a knife to this gun fight. You brought the cannolis."

 

It's an odd thing to disrupt "Anonymous" as anyone can do anything and say they are representing "Anonymous" (which as you point out a pretty flawed model).  Either way I hope the shitbags get chased down.

chrishutch13
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 @jrexilius

 But the Jester seemed to be pretty sure they had an organized leadership.

LauraWalkerKC
LauraWalkerKC moderator 5pts like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

 @chrishutch13  @jrexilius Much like LulzSec, there are always core leadership types.  And ye shall know them by their rap sheets.

RedSpecnaz
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 # AnonHamas the fuckers joined the jihad against Israel, but they do not realize that their jihad would devour .... likely to Mossad

Txazz
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Thanks Laura as I had been looking for a lil more info on this subject.  Good stuff.

LauraWalkerKC
LauraWalkerKC moderator 5pts

 @Txazz They made good on their threat to Israel - sort of.  They've been randomly hitting anything with a .il domain extension, without much discernment on the value of the targets.  A lot of chaos and headache, but ultimately, inconsequential.

Tango9
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The fuckers are tearing it up on the usual sites.  Goddam know-nothing script kiddies. 

StormR
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The anon videos are so dramatic that I always feel the urge to grab a box of popcorn before watching them.  If the 'people of Palestine' watch the video, they are probably thinking, "WTF?

BulletTooth32
BulletTooth32 5pts like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

typical liberal ass kids who think they understand the real world

 

Chris_B_83
Chris_B_83 5pts

@LauraWalkerKC Just tweeted bout this. This bring em under a diff set of prosecution standards now they have supported a known terror org?

LauraWalkerKC
LauraWalkerKC 5pts

@Chris_B_83 probably depends on whether you can argue it is "material support", or qualifies them as actors/agents for Hamas.

Chris_B_83
Chris_B_83 5pts

@LauraWalkerKC Im sure the Attorney General would find something if he wanted to.

LauraWalkerKC
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@Chris_B_83 Yeppers :)

ufridman
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Thanks Laura for the post. Like you said, the IDF have hackers that can make Anonshit look like amateurs. The idiots at anonshit have no idea who they are dealing with and in my opinion they should be added to the list of terrorists organizations. They were not added when they supported Wikileaks, they should be added now that they support a terrorist organizations like Hamas.

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Sonnys Mom
Sonnys Mom 5pts like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @mrfrosty  @ufridman  I write this post from the front desk of a tech co.  Amazing how many salespeople think they can get past the receptionist by innocently asking, "And what's that number?"  Some get really creative to make it past the "human firewalls".

It's a fine art to withhold info, redirect the caller's attention, and make him think you've actually done him a favor!  :)

LauraWalkerKC
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 @mrfrosty  @ufridman The SE skills used by Anonymous simply preys on the stupid and gullible.  There are probably a few Anons who have formidable SE skills (and yu can probably count them on one hand), but the majority of them rely on the average person not having a clue about security.  It's not so much skill as exploiting the weak.

yellowcub
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 @ufridman Could not agree more. Well said.

Old PH2
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Laura, I was keeping an eye on the IDF twitter feed and began seeing this develop.  Couldn't help but think to myself, "Do these idiots realize what they have unleashed?"  th3j35t3r had some traffic pointed at him that he graciously shared with Hamas, made me smile when I read that.  All in all I can't wait to see the fur fly on this one.  Think any of these fools are in the US?  Can you say Hello FBI? 

 

Get some, and make these idiots understand what it is to get pwnd!

LauraWalkerKC
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 @Old PH2 th3j35t3r did what he does best - he downed specific Hamas sites including qassam.ps (the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades main propaganda website) aqsatv.ps (Hamas run television channel) and hamasinfo.net and almotaqa.ps which are forums for inciting and radicalizing people to join Hamas and engage in radical terror activities.

 

The difference between Anonymous & Jester is not just the ideological difference: Anons target government and civilian sites - in the current case hitting anything they can with a .il domain, including small businesses and private websites, whereas Jester hits only internationally recognized terrorist websites, leaving ordinary Palestinians out of the fray. 

 

Jester's actions weren't just noticed by the IDF - he was quoted word for word by Netanyahu on Twitter this week:

 

Jester on Nov 15th:  https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/269234737648914432

 

Bibi on Nov 18th: https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/270179842941665281

 

While the AnonHamas attacks have been heavier than normal, Anonymous targets Israeli websites all the time, not just this week.  They've simply stepped up their campaign and made it extremely clear they support Hamas.

Tango9
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 @LauraWalkerKC  @Old PH2 Oh they hate him with a passion.  I've tussled witha  few of these little fuckers this week.  I'm no J by any stretch but I have a trick or two.... I didn't learn how to code on a Texas Instruments cassette magnetic reader for nothing.

LauraWalkerKC
LauraWalkerKC moderator 5pts like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 5 Like

 @Tango9  @Old PH2 Well Anonymous in general hate him for hitting Wikileaks - but they worship Assange, so go figure.  Then there is a cluster of trolls (twitter handles/names upon request if you're interested) that harass him daily.  But as you watch his TL you realize they are the same 6 or 7 idiots.  He swats them like flies when he can be bothered :)

 

Also, he's pretty creative with counteroffensive measures.  Check this out:

 

http://jesterscourt.mil.nf/2012/11/24/offensive-counter-measures-be-like-water/

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