The belief that “the digital picketers do not exist” is false. Reminiscent of the Cold War and dose of modernitythe activists transferred the theater of operations to the screens.
In some cases, these are actions whose purpose is to reconnoiter the environment and test the degree of defense of the target, but most are pure expression and typical action of activists either militancy that once operated in public life, in the social, political, ecological, and economic fields, demonstrating or protesting.
days ago, multiple websites of Israeli universities were attacked by the group Anonymous Sudan. “Israel’s education sector has been abandoned because of what they did in Palestine,” the group wrote in Telegram. The websites of the Universities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ben Gurion, Haifa, Reichmannand the Weizmann Institute of Science, were down and unavailable.
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The attack was implemented through a technique known as “denial of service” that causes a website’s server to be unable to respond to requests and go out of service. This action was part of an intense campaign known as #OPIsrael in which activists – essentially political hackers– attempt to attack Israeli targets in Internet.
The format was reinvented and so was the activity of hacktivists. anonymous, GhostSec, ghostwriter, cyberpartisans They are organizations that have incorporated capabilities for the design and execution of protest actions and installation campaigns on specific themes such as: fake news, digital folders o confusion and affected social mood; using “digital ammunition”, computer technology and the internet as an arsenal.
During 2016, in response to the Russian annexation of crimeathe group known as Cyber Resistancein order to disseminate information about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In recent months, this group also known as Ukrainian Cyber Alliancedevised and executed an attack on the Russian Colonel accused of his participation in the bombing of a theater in the city of Mariupol in March 2022 that produced dozens of civilian casualties.
The ruse managed to convince the wife of the soldier in the service of the Russian air force, inviting her to participate in an alleged patriotic photo session, using her husband’s uniform, including the ornament and decorations, arguing that the photos would be part of the production. of a calendar as part of the activities aimed at raising and sustaining the morale of the army. The sting operation used its first victim to win over 12 more wives, all military spouses stationed in combat positions in the invaded Ukraine. This allowed hacktivists to extract personal and confidential information, including military data and even nude photos of one of the military’s wives.
The “hacked” wives of the officers gladly participated in the shooting photos with their husbands’ uniforms that provided enough information to track their personal information, which would later be published on different sites and channels Telegram. With the professional data of the military uniform, together with their vaccination records against COVID-19, they then located their place of residence, military destination and other details.
the activists hacked thus the portal of the website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia to obtain the email and the amount of their remuneration, date of birth, telephone number and passport of the colonel and his wife, in addition to “intimate” photos that were also aired. Among the huge volumes of emails and spam in the mailboxes of the Russian commander they also found detailed lists of fighter pilotsofficer performance evaluation records, bulletins, theoretical and practical calculations, which are material of interest to Ukrainian intelligence.
Our fingerprint”the oceans of information we generate and our unpaid work for the algorithms, not only conspire in favor of our conversion to victim of one digital scambut, at this point, the power and specific weight in situations of war conflicts cannot be hidden, geopolitics either electoral processes. The new formats of expression and protest seem to be no stranger to technological progress and are used effectively, at least in those latitudes.
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