LulzSec, Anonymous Hacker Groups Declare War Against Governments, 'Gluttons'

Though it looked for a moment as if LulzSec and Anonymous might be getting ready for a hacker war against each other, the two groups have instead decided to band together against their real enemies: Governments.

Called "Operation Anti-Security," the new effort's "top priority" is, according to a blog post, to steal and leak classified government information, including email and documentation, with banks and other "high-ranking" establishments" pegged as "prime targets."

LulzSec has recently gotten attention for launching cyber attacks against the CIA and Senate websites, as well as Sony Pictures and PBS. Anonymous shut down Mastercard, Visa, PayPal and others in retaliation for those sites cutting off funding to Wikileaks, and have carried out myriad attacks against many other major organizations.

Though LulzSec has been taunting Anonymous by mocking 4Chan, the site where Anonymous has its roots, apparently the two groups are over that.

"Attention #Media: about #Lulzsec and #Anonymous, we are not at war. We are bros of teh internetz. Also, /b/ != Anonymous," Anonymous tweeted.

There are apparently bigger fish to fry. "Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011," the letter from Lulz Security said, referring to "the government and whitehat security terrorists." The letter encourages supporters to deface government websites, as well as physical locations, with the word "AntiSec."

"To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships," the letter continued.

As usual, the group threatened that anyone who tried to stop them from carrying out its operation would be a target.

"If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood," they wrote.

Comments

[DoctorLes]

11:47 AM on 06/26/2011

Why are all these articles about LulzSec seemingly avoiding saying anything of substance about their manifesto? They dance around it carefully so as not to "promote" it perhaps?

But this pattern has also been true about many articles that discuss controversial groups. Mass media is owned and censored to the point that, today, we have no free press other than independent Internet sources--and many of those are fronts or just plane distortions or groundless rants.

[I3edlam]

12:18 PM on 06/26/2011

hittin deep doc.

[TFProleteriat]

06:06 PM on 06/23/2011

May Lulz and Anonymous be the first step to true technological freedom. All Hail the Neuromancers!

[John Zorabedian]

05:44 AM on 06/22/2011

they are basically anarchists with keyboards.

[Peter Hockley]

06:18 AM on 06/22/2011

And your point is?

[Protect Speech]

06:48 AM on 06/22/2011

your an idiot with a keyboard...

[LonosCurse]

09:33 AM on 06/22/2011

Cyber-bully!

[undertheinfluence]

01:51 AM on 06/22/2011

It was fun while it lasted, but, I guess it's time for Rumsfeld to shut off the internet.

[pflickner]

03:58 AM on 06/22/2011

Aww, is you such a wittow bitty baby dat you can't handle fweedom? Poor thing. The rest of us like free speech, and if they shut down the net, let them have fun trying to find all the bb's and usenets.

[Protect Speech]

06:48 AM on 06/22/2011

nobody is impressed by you....

[LonosCurse]

09:56 AM on 06/22/2011

How come it never occurs to these people to vote?

[John Zorabedian]

05:45 AM on 06/22/2011

there's no time to waste --

[thediamond0000]

01:49 AM on 06/22/2011

turn the tables on the states.

'if you have nothing to hide, you dont mind being spied upon'.

the arab spring started with a fruit vendor. revolutions come in strange ways.

[hedah]

12:37 PM on 06/26/2011

BINGO ! F & F

[Protect Speech]

12:12 AM on 06/22/2011

Most of you really don't get it.

Anonymous is not your friend. Its not a group of freedom fighters. Anonymous is not liberal. Anonymous is not conservative. It dosent care about a 'reveolution' or 'exposing evil bankers' or 'standing up for the little guy'. Anonymous hates and laughs at the little guy. If Anonymous ever met you, it would think you were a boring, old, fool, good for nothing but providing entertainment threw unmerciful redicule

Anonymous has one purpose and goal....to provide the lulz

[pflickner]

04:03 AM on 06/22/2011

You really don't get it, do you? Anonymous is us. They don't go after the little guy because WE don't go after the little guy. They hate and laugh at anyone who tries to shut them down because WE hate and laugh at anyone who tries to shut us down. And they would think that YOU were boring. Trolls never get it. The rest of us? We fit just fine, thank you. Read this: http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&page=2#comments. I doubt you'll get it, but who knows. And you're such a dip. No one does anything to "provide the lulz". Go back under your bridge. I'm sure it misses you.

[Protect Speech]

04:51 AM on 06/22/2011

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Anonymous

I suggest you pay close attention to the 'Old Anon vs New Anon'

after that, I suggest you type 'me' into the search...

It really brings a smile to my face when old people try to define and understand the internets

[Protect Speech]

06:47 AM on 06/22/2011

No response?

You are nothing. You know nothing. You say nothing.

you are a cog

[William Brock]

08:37 PM on 06/21/2011

I love cyber wars................Welcome to the 21st century. :)

[Cheezburgerz]

08:14 PM on 06/21/2011

Get those greedy pigs lulz-sec
get them good

[pflickner]

04:04 AM on 06/22/2011

I hope you're not calling LulzSec the greedy pigs; they're not the ones stealing our money. That would be the Koch brothers and their ilk in Wall Street and the GOP. LulzSec only takes on groups that try to shut down free speech. Or that threaten them.

[LonosCurse]

10:07 AM on 06/22/2011

Hey don't get wrong, I'm all for the little guy taking on the big guys and if they take down Citibank and BOA more power to them but I don't think it's about that. I used to be a techie and I get the feeling that it's more about "hey look what we can do" than anything else. In the end threatening to take my network down because you don't argue with me is no better than putting a tomahawk missle down my smoke stack. Doing something just because you can is just bullying.

[opressor]

05:16 PM on 06/21/2011

I love this...fly high cyber soldiers. They to pull a Fight Club action and wipe out the entire Wall Street Casino! Where's their donate button :-)

[RevSpaminator]

03:15 PM on 06/21/2011

Right now, what is the worst these guys can do? Shutdown a website? Break into systems with poor security? Even if they were to expose the darkest secrets of Elvis's love affair with a space alien, so what?! Without an effective system of enforcement and accountability, no amount of information will create any lasting reform. People are mindless sheep and we are living the world we have created.

[Dnietz]

04:59 PM on 06/21/2011

The broke into the internal system of the company that sets up security for the FBI network and got into their private confidential HR systems and published the CEO's Social Security number.

Then they locked out the companies own IT staff, so they couldn't repair their internal network.

That is a little bit more than just taking down a website.

[RevSpaminator]

10:39 AM on 06/22/2011

That company had poor security and large amounts of hubris because they had an FBI account. "Act big and you'll appear big" kind of attitude.

[Mike Knish]

11:05 PM on 06/21/2011

And don't dismiss the symbolic importance of what you're doing. The world is falling apart around us, and they are standing up against them in visible ways and significant ways. We need a struggle unlike we have ever seen in order to reverse the direction of the corrupt elite that are destroying the world and everything in it, and at least they're stepping up to the plate and organizing. I understand that your hopelessness, but what we need is people standing up and refusing to go along with this anymore, not self-defeatist.

I'll support anyone who acts against corruption, murder, abuse of power, etc, including Anon and Lulzsec. WE NEED EVERYTHING WE CAN GET.

[RevSpaminator]

10:40 AM on 06/22/2011

They making a lot of noise but the people take no action and keep voting for liars.

[HamChuc]

01:42 PM on 06/21/2011

These two groups are the closest we have to a revolutionary movement. They should add Wall Street and their executives into their list of targets...it would be nice to raid some of those bonuses and pay-down student loans or something.

[DanSc]

03:27 PM on 06/21/2011

Which is why I've already drained your accounts. Thanks for the $$$ brah.

[pflickner]

04:07 AM on 06/22/2011

That's just dorky.

[Dnietz]

05:00 PM on 06/21/2011

totally agree
I'll cheer at their accomplishments

[trueblueredstater]

12:51 PM on 06/21/2011

"Cannonfire anointed with lizard blood"????
You have to admit, their prose is more colorful than what you usually see.

Frankly, though, the security problems that I am most concerned about are big corporations losing files that might contain my credit card info. I've already had to replace a couple of cards because of lax physical security on the part of data processing centers.

[The Opinionator]

01:05 PM on 06/21/2011

Indeed, the wordplay is entertaining.

I'd gladly give up my credit card info 10x over if it meant a solid chance at uncovering the corruption in Wall St. and government. The pros far outweigh the cons.

The status quo must end.

[JackWhistle]

01:38 PM on 06/21/2011

f&f :)

[Dnietz]

05:08 PM on 06/21/2011

absolutely F&F

[majacq1]

04:31 PM on 06/26/2011

I agree with you about the credit card info. However, it gives me pause about using credit anymore. I mean, credit cards and the like just feed the machine. Perhaps its time to begin to live like my grandparents did. If I didn't have the cash, maybe I don't need it. And there's always installment buying.

Frankly, their efforts expose just how really vulnerable everything is. How dependent the whole system is on the very resource these guys can easily undermine at will. Perhaps its time to "come out of Babylon."

[LonosCurse]

12:25 PM on 06/21/2011

Their targets say do your worst because in the end, we'll pass the cost on to the little guy.

[pflickner]

04:09 AM on 06/22/2011

That may be true initially, but keep it up, and they can be run into the ground. What they really should do is go after the World Bank.

[Protect Speech]

06:53 AM on 06/22/2011

who is 'they'?

[majacq1]

04:37 PM on 06/26/2011

They almost did, although I'm not so sure they may have learned what they needed after getting into the IMF. I find all of this interesting to watch. I'm not tech savvy to support them, but, I admire the spirit of what they are doing.

[Palaver]

12:01 PM on 06/21/2011

"The revolution will not be televised."

[LonosCurse]

12:25 PM on 06/21/2011

It will be on YouTube.

[RevSpaminator]

03:06 PM on 06/21/2011

No, there will be a communication blackout.

[hedah]

12:52 PM on 06/26/2011

wow ! can't wait, Palaver, just cannot wait.....lol

[gunsreligion]

11:44 AM on 06/21/2011

I thought jobless hippies liked Big Government? Why are all you malcontents supportive of this type of activity?

[JackWhistle]

01:39 PM on 06/21/2011

Are you aware of the word "Fascists"?
Could you even define it?

[LonosCurse]

03:18 PM on 06/21/2011

Can you?

[pflickner]

04:10 AM on 06/22/2011

Only the GOP likes Big Government. That's why they increase its size rapidly while they're in power because they know that once the truth gets out, they'll be out of power for the next few decades, and it's harder to undo a government post, especially the way Bush set it up this last time, than it is to keep it around.

[Protect Speech]

06:53 AM on 06/22/2011

bush 2012