Remember Sabu , theAnonymous hacker turned FBI informant?According to the New York Times , he ’s been link up to a series of external cyber attacks — and the trace is that they may have been ordered by the Bureau .
The paper writesthat , back in 2012 , Sabu exploit a web hosting vulnerability and organise other cyberpunk to extract data—”from bank records to login information”—from a number of alien government server . The data was then upload to a waiter have it off to be monitored by the FBI . The Timesexplains :
The details of the 2012 episode have , until now , been kept largely a closed book in closed sessions of a federal Margaret Court in New York and heavily redacted documents . While the text file do not indicate whether the F.B.I. now ordered the flack , they suggest that the politics may have used hacker to pull together news oversea even as investigators were trying to disassemble hacking groups like Anonymous and send computer activists away for lengthy prison price .
Sabu — or Hector Xavier Monsegur to his mother — bear a series of attacks against the likes of PayPal and MasterCard before being arrested by the FBI back in 2012 . Then , he undulate over , turned on his peopleand became an witness .
While it was known that he was render the FBI with information , the new composition fromthe Times suggeststhat Monsegur was in possession of a list of “ more than 2,000 cyberspace domain ” cater by the FBI , some of which he attempted to hack along with fellow Anonymous member Jeremy Hammond .
The report revealsthat “ Monsegur … directed Mr. Hammond to cut up government websites in Iran , Nigeria , Pakistan , Turkey and Brazil and other government sites , like those of the Polish Embassy in Britain and the Ministry of Electricity in Iraq . ”
The FBI has yet to notice on the report — but it certainly seems plausible that it directed attacks through its lapdog hacker . [ NYT ]
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