War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us
By Gabriella Coleman
Specifically, they implemented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the internet relay chat (IRC) rooms used by Anonymous. They also implanted malware to out the personal identity details of specific participants. And while we only know for sure that the U.K.’s GCHQ and secret spy unit known as the “Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group” (JTRIG) launched these attacks in an operation called “Rolling Thunder,” the U.S.’ NSA was likely aware of what they were doing because the British intelligence agents presented their program interventions at the NSA conference SIGDEV in 2012. (Not to mention the two agencies sharing close ties in general.)
The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us