Anonymous takes over Colombian government websites

Anonymous is a person who has been characterized by committing acts within the Internet networks that have created controversy by revealing news about politics. But he is also known for making attacks on the government, organizations, disclosing information about celebrities and more. Even though Anonymous is not one or several people, the reality is that it is a community that prefers to remain anonymous. It can be anyone actually, however there are several communities, but there is one in particular that is the largest that has more than 10 million followers on facebook. All the material disseminated is published on social networks such as; twitter, facebook and youtube.

How did Anonymous arise?

Anonymous is a pseudonym used worldwide by different groups and individuals to carry out in their name -by agreeing with others- individual or concerted actions or publications. They emerged from the imageboard 4chan and the Hackers forum; in the beginning as a movement for fun.

If you want to know more about the history and origin of the mask here is a video where we explain it:

What happened recently in Colombia?

The protests in Colombia were triggered by the tax reform promoted by President Iván Duque and then withdrawn. Not only did they attract the attention of international organizations and from all walks of life, these international communities called for an end to the repression of protesters and called for repression of protesters. Anonymous hacker.

In context we leave you a video explaining what happened in the protests and the dissatisfaction of the Colombian people for the tax increase, but everything got out of control, what started as a peaceful march became a war zone. Several users express in context:

The Colombian state is aiming its weapons against us in broad daylight, to kill, they do not want us to go out to protest, they do not want the president to sit down and talk about canceling the tax reform and another health reform that he wants to implement by force, militarized the city of Cali.

After all the armed conflict and in the social networks, Anonymous immediately comes out to unmask private information of the officials. State secrets are being revealed, because information security is another problem. Anonymous Colombia published on social networks information on at least 168 Colombian military personnel. 

Among the most prominent is the hacking of Colombian government web pages.

Unable to access this site? o Mistake? is all that can be read on the screen after trying to access web pages such as those of the Army, the Senate of the Republic and now the one belonging to the Casa de Nariño: www.presidencia.gov.co.

But the page is now redirected to a subdomain after the initiation has taken place.

How did anonymous manage to crack this list of Colombian websites?

The method used by the hackers is known as Denial of Service or DDoSin which use pages anchored in servers all over the world, which multiply by 10,000, 100,000 or even millions of simultaneous entries to a given web address. Unable to contain the entire revenue stream, the attacked site usually crashes (becomes disabled) until the revenue stream ceases.

Although the computer specialists in charge of the Presidency's web page have tried to set it up again in the last few minutes, their efforts have been unsuccessful. The concern lies in the fact that this page also publishes official government information on the balance of positive cases and the trend of covid-19 infections in Colombia.

After a search through different state web pages, SEMANA was able to corroborate that so far all of them are still enabled and there has been no announcement of new attacks by Anonymous.

In order to support Colombia's mobilization activities, the hacker organization Anonymous leaked data and emails of several members of the National Army during a wave of protests against tax reform and government management during the pandemic. Anonymous published a list of 168 accounts of members of the armed forces on its Twitter account, and then shared a message to ensure that: ?people panic because guerrillas killed guerrillas in the same army that murdered and killed their people. According to anonymous sources, the Army is creating a smokescreen in the country.

In addition, the organization leaked an alleged conversation in Cali on May 2 in which it heard a speech by Colombian Army General Eduardo Enrique Zapatero and claimed to have received it. The President's order militarized the city and wrote to him before Colombia. Demonstrators.

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