This Christmas Eve a group of hackers who associate with Anonymous living in Egypt hacked into the Costa Rica Ministry of Environment web sites. The attack was not so much a malicious attack seeking revenge so much as the hackers found a vulnerability and exploited it to self promote.
They are known as the “Anonymous Rabba Team” and they exists as a direct result of the Rabaa Square Massacre in Cairo, Egypt on August 14, 2013. If you are unfamiliar with the incident nearly 1,000 people were killed across Egypt that day, approximately 817 people were massacred by the Egyptian Army in Rabba Square. You can read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/22/why-egypts-military-orchestrated-a-massacre/
The two web sites hacked can be seen here:
- http://www.minae.go.cr/index.php/actualidad/historias-y-curiosidades/61-isla-del-coco
- http://www.sirea.minae.go.cr/
The Hackers who pulled of the hack go by:
- Dr.AFN[D]ENA
- Freedom Cry
- Mr.Moshkela
- Dr.Mezo0
- Almagek Kabo
- X-Pr0 Altrsana
- Alarg53
- Dr.No0oS
- Blood Injcetor_ps
- HectorMan
The Anonymous Rabba Square Has Their Own Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R4BIAHACKERSTEAM?
In an interesting twist of events one of the leaders of Anonymous Rabba known as Dr.AFN[D]ENA also has direct links to the Cyber Caliphate Army which has declared War on Anonymous following the December 11th international ISIS troll day: http://anonhq.com/december-11th-international-islamic-state-troll-day-operational/
A local news station out of Costa-Rice claims the December 24th hack as executed by a “Pro-ISIS group” not Anonymous: http://news.co.cr/costa-rica-government-website-hacked-by-pro-isis-group/43541/
Though the group made no mention of any Pro-ISIS statements in this particular attack it has been widely noted in the past that Dr.AFN[D]ENA has been involved in several attacks against Israel and countries supporting Israel in western civilizations: http://thecryptosphere.com/2015/06/11/i-attacked-joomla-an-interview-with-dr-afndena-of-anoncoders/
*Sources: http://news.softpedia.com/*
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