Anonymous Hacker Group: Resign Bernanke or else....

[Acid Trip]

I'd hate to be Bernanke right now. Anyone in IT security knows that Anonymous does what it wants, when it wants, and that pissing them off is a bad idea. Dollars to donuts that Sony has better IT security than the federal government and that didn't save them.

Originally Published by The Business Insider's Courtney Comstock:

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily...&asset=&ccode=

Anonymous has set its sights on Ben Bernanke. The most well-known hacker group, Anonymous, uploaded a video message to YouTube yesterday calling for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to resign, among other things.

The video begins with Bernanke saying he is 100% confident of his ability to control the income disparity in the U.S. -- the largest of any industrialized country in the world -- on 60 Minutes.

Then it says:

"Democrats have failed us, Republicans have failed us... It is time for us to stand up for ourselves... We must fight back against the organized criminal class... We must launch "operation Empire State rebellion. The operation will commence on June 14th...Operation Empire State Rebellion Engaged."

Anonymous first called for Bernanke to resign on March 12. The group's latest YouTube video has this description:

In this new video release, "as a first step," Anonymous has called for public protests beginning on June 14th, continuing "until Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down."

To make their case, they have presented a list of recent scandalous Federal Reserve actions. The group also provided a Google Map guide to a series of protests, aimed to:

-- "End the campaign finance and lobbying racket"

-- "Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks"

-- "Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class"

-- "Order Ben Bernanke to step down."

The movement has also been referred to as, "CTRL+ALT_BERNANKE."

The video was published the same day that the "major IMF hacker breach" was reported by the New York Times. Anonymous previously warned that it would attack the IMF on June 1st. However the IMF says the hack took place before the IMF chief, Dominique Strauss Kahn, was arrested for attempted rape on May 15. Someone familiar with the matter says that a foreign government was behind the attack.

The Video:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Fantastic. Get 'r done

[Muddy]

interesting...

[Godfather]

So... will anything happen tomorrow?

I think these guys have a lot of reason to be pissed off. The Federal bank is pretty seedy

But does this 'Operation State Rebellion' really exist in a tangible way? Are they 'activating' enough people who believe in them to step up? Or have they been watching too many movies like V for Vendetta. Just doesn't seem like the outrage is there yet for Americans to really do what their forefathers would expect when the government is failing them so miserably.

[Deepsepia]

In other notes, someone -- no one has explicitly said who, but its presumed to be the Chinese -- hacked the International Monetary Fund.

Hackers who broke into the International Monetary Fund's computer system may have been backed by a nation state, according to security experts.

They point to the sophisticated nature of the attack and the resources needed to develop it.

Malicious software, designed to steal confidential files, was installed on at least one IMF computer.

Although government involvement is widely suspected, the IMF has not released enough details to be sure.
Digital insider

Based on the limited information made public, it appears that the attack came from a specific PC that had been deliberately infected.

Hacker software was likely to have been installed on it in what is known as a spear-phishing attack, which sees highly targeted scam e-mails sent to specific victims.

A memo circulated internally at the IMF reported that "suspicious file transfers" had been detected.

Tom Kellerman, a security expert who has worked for the IMF and now sits on the board of the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance told Reuters news agency that it was "a targeted attack" with code written specifically to give a nation state a "digital insider presence" on the IMF network.

Graham Titherington, a security analyst with research firm Ovum agreed with the nation state theory.

"Any attack that shows money, time and resources went on it points to a state attack. States and their intelligence agencies have far more resources than criminal gangs," he said.

The information held by the IMF would be clearly be most valuable to a country, he added.

"It has masses of economic information from the performance of countries to the state of their balance sheets. For countries deciding where to invest it is invaluable," he said.

State-sponsored hacking has gained prominence in recent months.

"Google shifted the debate by going public on a hack attack believed to be by China," said Mr Titherington.

The Chinese government has denied involvement in the recent attack on Google's e-mail accounts.

The incident compromised the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists.

Google said that the campaign to obtain passwords originated in the Chinese city of Jinan and was aimed at monitoring e-mail.

According to Mark Darvill, director of security firm AEP Networks, many countries are involved in cyber espionage but China remained at the "forefront".

"China has recently set up a cyber terrorism unit which is very likely to be looking at opportunities rather than to stop attacks," he said.

[Acid Trip]

If I were in Anonymous I would spoof my IP address to be somewhere in China too. The chances of the US government going there and investigating are slim to none.

You have to wonder, who is tracking the signal to China and is it accurate? The IT people at the IMF didn't stop the attack and now were trusting them to find where it came from? Sounds like a double failure.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

They love to fail

[Muddy]

Is this the guys from chan4 ?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

thats where it all started

[Muddy]

really?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I'm pretty sure

[Muddy]

Do they use Macs or PC's?

[PorkChopSandwiches]

probably linux

[Muddy]

I bet they are some cool guys out in the real world...

[Acid Trip]

probably linux

Agreed. A better question would be "Which distro of Linux do they use?"