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GCHQ reportedly infiltrated and attacked hacktivist groups |
February 05, 2014
British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has reportedly infiltrated hacktivist groups and used denial-of-service and other techniques to disrupt their online activities.A PowerPoint presentation that GCHQ prepared for a 2012 conference organized by the U.S. National Security Agency reveals that one of the agency’s units, called the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), collected information on “hacktivists”—politically motivated hackers—and shared it with law enforcement agencies. The unit also used denial-of-service techniques to disrupt the hacktivists’ communication channels.The slides were among the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and were published Wednesday by NBC News. JTRIG used human intelligence techniques to gather information about members of Anonymous and LulzSec, two related groups of hacktivists that attacked the websites of various companies, organizations and governments, NBC News reported.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2094740/gchq-reportedly-infiltrated-and-attacked-hacktivist-groups.html#tk.rss_all
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