Anonymous Draws Wrath of Los Zetas
The hacker group Anonymous, partially responsible for the Occupy Wall Street mobs, thought it would be fun to target the Los Zetas drug cartel. The cartel sent them a message to watch their backs by stringing up a couple of social networking users from a bridge. Anonymous collectively gulped at the news and ran to make sure they were hiding properly behind tor nodes and proxies.
From GMANews here:
Hacktivist group Anonymous is taking real-life security measures to protect bloggers joining it in exposing information about the “Los Zetas” Mexican drug cartel.
Computer security firm Sophos said Anonymous’ Ibero-American wing posted security steps to help bloggers in the #OpsCartel operation protect themselves.
“Anonymous Iberoamerica says it is creating a ‘special task force’ by invitation only. It is advising members to send messages through a proxy server or through Tor and is pleading with members to avoid identifying themselves as part of Anonymous,” Sophos said in a blog post.
Sophos noted Anonymous’ steps followed rumors that Zetas plans to hire “narco-hackers” to track down and physically retaliate against the hacktivists.
“Retaliation by this bloody, brutal cartel has already resulted in a body count: a man and a woman have been killed and hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo with signs warning against posting anti-cartel blogs,” it said.
It cited reports another anti-cartel blogger, a girl, was found beheaded in Nuevo Laredo.
Dude, the zetas have thunderdome armored cars and like killing. The kids in their mom’s basements who think they can hide their online activities might be in some real danger.
As Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure tweeted:
