Anonymous Hacker Group Warns Spain: 'Expect Us'

After Spanish police arrested three alleged hackers thought to be a part of group Anonymous, Anonymous has come out with a message for Spain.

"V for Spain... We are Legion, so EXPECT US ," they tweeted. The same sentiment was echoed on their blog.

The hackers are suspected to have been involved in attacks against two Spanish banks, the governments of Egypt, Libya, Iran, and more, as well as against Sony's PlayStation Network. The police have isolated a computer server in one of their homes that was used in such hacks, however the police have not yet found evidence that the men had acquired any sensitive data.

According to the AP, the three men were charged with being involved in attempted attacks on the country's electoral commission website:

In Spain, acting on their own, the three detainees staged cyber attacks on the website of Spain's central electoral commission a few days before local and regional elections on May 22, that of the regional police force in the northeast Catalonia region and a major Spanish labor union.

The night before the election, the three men tried to shut down the web pages of Spain's two main political parties and that of the Spanish parliament but were thwarted by police, Vazquez said.

This would not be the first time Anonymous has vowed revenge. Attacks against Visa, Mastercard, PayPal earlier this year were in retaliation for those organizations locking out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. More recently, Anonymous threatened NATO for its condemnation of the hacker group.

Comments

[Birdbone]

01:07 PM on 06/14/2011

Anon-
Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy
Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
Ramon "The Phantom Phreak" Sanchez
Emmanuel "CerealKiller"Goldstein and
Paul "Lord Nikon" Cook

[divinemauler]

03:03 PM on 06/13/2011

It's back to paper and pencil. Oh well.

[dayzee10]

06:26 PM on 06/12/2011

I have said for years that one day when we use the atm we will find all accounts with zero balance.....so after that the Glen Beck gold loons will rule the world

[purple13]

05:24 PM on 06/12/2011

btw, "Anon" is all over the world...there are no "ties" to spain...there are rather tentacles everywhere. and one tweet of theirs encouraged people to give bone marrow. they're not all bad. read up on what some of them say, not what the news says.

[purple13]

05:23 PM on 06/12/2011

IMO, they're doing us ALL a favor by exposing the fact that stupid Co.s like Citi need to invest in security and not bonuses. and hey, the story the planted on the PBS site re Tupac still alive and in, what was it, New Zealand. priceless. there's far worse they can do. if you bother to read some of their stuff they're quite interesting and they are saying they will release the Bank of America stuff the Wikileaks apparently never has. what i read flag day's the day for the release. i hope so! i find it odd the BoA stuff has never surfaced.

[dna user]

03:45 PM on 06/12/2011

These kids are soon going to find out where they fit in the scheme of things.

[Kald]

12:55 PM on 06/12/2011

There are several posts here on huff po about this matter and it is remarkable that they only talk about what Anonymous allegedly did and not a word about WHY they are doing it.

This is not the "war on terror"... It is still OK to talk about why people are doing what they do in this regard without jeopardizing your homeland security status.

[edude]

11:16 AM on 06/12/2011

Why is Anonymous picking on a local election for the "regional police force in the northeast Catalonia region and a major Spanish labor union"? Don't they know that Spain's hobbled economy, with a quarter unemployed, has Zapatero and the socialists on the ropes and the rightwing on the ascendancy? I mean, who the heck are these idiots at Anonymous? Falangists?

[Wide Stance]

01:09 PM on 06/12/2011

Someone in Anon must have Spanish ties? They supported Wilileaks, which means politically they are fighting for transparency over tyranny. That's their political stance--or at least the strongest political position they have espoused. Now the authorities honed in on several members in Spain--which made Spain a target of their ire. The latter action is reaction. It's not politically motivated, but emotionally so. They tried to shut down the election bilaterally, which further proves that the motive is control, not politics.

Honestly, anonymous seems naive politically. They have enormous technical power, but can't agree on what to do with it. As an "organization"--loosely described--it is intentionally fragmented and cellular; it lacks the structure necessary to have a singular political expression.

[Wide Stance]

01:12 PM on 06/12/2011

*Wikileaks. (Wilileaks is what is happening in the US House, 9th district.)

[jdbeme]

10:07 AM on 06/12/2011

A little Assembly language knowledge, a unique server setup and language, and do not use cookie cutter databases such as MySql. It is nearly impossible to protect a jail or chroot area.
The first processor in the first computer should compare all incoming information directly against a set block of binary in set register's (I break my highs and lows apart at this point, not sure if that will help; but I do everything I can conceive to make it harder to hack). Only values considered legal are sent past (you should name each variable), as an added precaution you should push a unique variable into the stack after each client variable in case someone attempts to break your coding. The last precaution is to close all ports in your boot sector (if your bios loads some port definitions), so possible loopholes in the bios can not be exploited.
I personally can not imagine how this could hacked, at the very worst you would give the hackers something new to contend with and that at least counts for something.
Been spewing this crap for a while in hopes people will read it and either add to it, tell me how its wrong, or use the basic idea with their own modifications. Not a hacker myself, though I do learn what techniques I can and how to implement them. Everything seems to have a hole but this.

[jo smith456]

09:47 AM on 06/12/2011

the REAL WAR should be on those WTF gangsters (WTF=wall-street terrorist financiers), who defrauded the Americans billions and billions of dollars, using lobbyists-money to control our govertnment and our media and freedom of speech!!!! These WTF gangsters have significantly contributed to the root cause of US financial mess that also has affected other world financial markets INCLUDING EUROPE, in which some countries have to institute Austere "measures" (well it's also called "reforms") to support their banking systems...

[jaredbrain]

07:55 AM on 06/12/2011

Anonymous is looking less and less like kids playing hacker and more and more like cyberterrorists.

[Flying Dutchman]

09:12 AM on 06/13/2011

"Anonymous is looking less and less like kids playing hacker and more and more like cyberterro­rists."

And that is because they are killing people all of a sudden?

Why do you need to reframe "breaking and entry" as terrorism?

[Morgantheaxe]

04:05 AM on 06/12/2011

Just some background info as to what all the nerd rage is all about with anonymous. I know people are trying to glorify what they are doing but when you get to the basis of why they are doing what they are doing you realize they are spoiled thieves having a nerd rage fit and nothing more.

This all begins with a brilliant young man named George Hotz. He is the guy that jailbroke the iphone. Sony Ps3 was the last console that had not been jailbroken. Young Mr. Hotz decided he was the man for the job and jailbroke his Ps3. He posts the vid to youtube and sony finds out. Im short on words here so lemme cliff notes the rest.

You jailbreak a PS3 to run homebrew(home written software), to allow you to rip, steal, sell, modify and or distribute licensed software. In short there is no good reason to do it.

George Hotz posts the PS3 encryption keys (you know that key you get when you legit buy software). Sony goes absolutely nuts because this allows thieves that sell bogus pirated software to now run it on any PS3. Sony Sues Mr. Hotz and basically wins.

Nerd Rage ensues. The hackisphere goes insane because sony wont let them have the info to sell pirated software and or malware. I mean how dare they protect their own business right???? I mean it should all be free anyways....or atleast pirated right???

[edude]

11:27 AM on 06/12/2011

I'm guessing that if Sony took away Hotz's computer/s, he wouldn't like that very much. Yet he feels no compunction about stealing Sony's encryption keys. I mean, I get it. I guess I'd be nerd raging too if Sony had taken away intellectual property that I had worked so hard to steal. Is there no justice for thieves these days?

Now if we could only get Hotz and Anonymous to redirect their hacking skills toward Wall Street and find us some incriminating evidence that could put those super-rich bankster thieves behind bars, then he'd rehabilitate his image somewhat.

[amethystnix]

03:43 AM on 06/12/2011

Ugh they aren't hackers they're called crackers theres a difference unless you call them black hat hackers then it okay to say hackers...cuz you know black hat...bad.....they give ethical hackers a bad name. support the white hat hackers!!!!!

[jaredbrain]

07:56 AM on 06/12/2011

No.

[vurnun2]

05:18 PM on 06/12/2011

You got it... Crackers , are people whom break into systems and undo the security measures behind systems sure enough, but the majority of so-called educated jornolists call them hackers and do not bother with disinqiushment from the rest of the white-hat crowd whom deplores their actions becasue they dont care - simple as that.

[Morgantheaxe]

02:35 AM on 06/12/2011

Nerd Rage.

[banjokuzi]

12:25 PM on 06/12/2011

nerd? i don't think these are nerds anymore

[Morgantheaxe]

12:50 PM on 06/12/2011

Yah? Wiki George Hotz and take a look. Looks like nerd rage to me. This is all about sony going after "Geohot" anyways.

[Tom95134]

11:46 PM on 06/11/2011

I think that at the least, they are in trouble for copyright infringement...
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