The prosecution confirmed on Friday, May 13, the capture of Andrés Felipe Cardoso, aka Orgon, one of the so-called hackers who would have infiltrated the digital platforms of some state and private entities and the social networks of the former president Alvaro Uribe.
This is a subject who was a member of the network known as Anonymous Colombiawhich attributed all kinds of cyber attacks to entities such as the Police, Army, Prosecutor’s Office, Presidencyamong others during the government of former president ivan duke.
Magazine Week released the details of what was the capture of Orgon, the place where he lived and his center of operations that was not in any populated area but rather far from cities and municipalities, something that surprised the authorities at the time of his arrest.
One of the data that most attracted the attention of the investigation of the prosecution to find the whereabouts of Orgonthe famous hacker from Anonymous Colombiais that it carried out all its operations in a place unexpected by the authorities because it was not a large establishment, not even in a city.
According to Weekthe subject worked and lived in a humble ranch that was located in a village in the municipality of Aguazul, Casanareusing only two computers and his phone to infiltrate and carry out cyber attacks on state entities, according to the accusing entity.
However, no details were known about the Internet connectivity it had Orgon from this house, which was very small, and if the neighbors in the village knew about the activities that Mr. Cardoso carried out in his house that put the country on alert.
research on Orgon notes that was delivered by one of the members of the organization Anonymous Colombia that he knew each of the subject’s actions to infiltrate state entities, his activity and even the messages he sent to the other members.
“One of the members (Anonymous) gave us data that allowed us to begin to break the security protocols that Orgón used and that made it easier for him to remain anonymous,” a person who led the process to capture the person involved told the media outlet. .
Some of the modalities he used Orgon in his hack was the launch of millions of requests to take the platforms offline –known as DDoS attacks–, he injected malicious code with files of the forms for the public that used those web pages.
“The success of these attacks is achieved when they are grouped, organized and with their abilities they manage to penetrate the website after detecting their vulnerabilities,” said one of the Dijín researchers in the case.
A fact that indicated the Attorney Generalin his statement, is that the hacker of Anonymous Colombia “He entered the Internet pages of various institutions and modified the visual appearance as part of a criminal plan of sabotage and discredit.”
He Chief of the Police Cyber Center, Major Adrián Vega Hernándezassured that in Anonymous Colombia There is no visible head or leader, nor is there a group of people who take command of the hacking operations, but each one of them works on their own.
“They, within the organization, do not have a defined hierarchy because it is not a pyramidal structure, it is a linear structure. They all contribute with the same capabilities to attack the targets and no one commands the other”, explained the officer.
He Prosecutor Francisco Barbosa He added that the organization was created to affect financial information, city halls, ombudsmen and transport institutes had intervened, sequestering data”, in addition to the capture of Orgon “We managed to charge him with several crimes that have to do with this.”
