Anonymous responds to Sabu claim and arrests with attack on security vendor

Anonymous has responded to arrests and the revelation that 'Sabu' was working with the FBI as an informant; it has said it would continue its work and commenced by defacing the web site of Panda Security.

In a press release posted at its AnonOps website, it said that when the events, its communication team decided that it'll continue reporting news about Anonymous's activities. It said: “Anonymous will continue fighting for freedom on the earth, but we also needless to say people around the globe should get up and claimed by what's right [sic].

“We think that it's also important to begin removing the old power structures that oppress people. The FBI does work for politicians in spite of everything, who're kept in office by the campaign donations of corporations. Not represent the folk. It's time for a metamorphosis.”

It also recommended that the FBI "should spend rather less time pursuing Anonymous and put more effort into bringing to justice the white-collar criminals who crashed the economy in 2008 and 2011" and, in accordance with the worldwide Occupy movement, called for it to "stop working for the 1%".

Ahead of yesterday's arrests, Interpol announced the arrests of 25 people suspected of being Anonymous members in Europe. Sabu had reacted to that news on Twitter by urging others to attack Interpol's website.

One of the numerous Anonymous Twitter feeds claimed that it had blocked the account of Sabu and later said: “A movement against authority without leaders drives authority insane; they cant break down a movement by corrupting the leader.”

Another account, FuryofAnon, which Sabu told SC Magazine was an official channel for Anonymous, said it was "shocked out of my mind".

The final tweet from Sabu's account, posted before the inside track broke, read "Die Revolution sagt ich bin, ich war, ich werde sein", which translates to "The revolution says i'm, i used to be, i'll be".

Anonymous responded to the developments by defacing websites and servers belonging to Panda Security. In an announcement, Anonymous said that it had "backdoored" Pandasecurity.com and accused the Spanish anti-virus vendor of "making money working with Law Enforcement to lurk and snitch on anonymous activists".

It said: “They helped to jail 25 anonymous [sic] in numerous countries and so they were actively participating in our IRC channels attempting to dox many others.” It added that Panda's actions "only help to hazard people much more" as "they contribute to bring activist [sic] to jail".

In an announcement, Panda said: “On 6 March the hacking group LulzSec, portion of Anonymous, obtained access to a Panda Security webserver hosted outside of the Panda Security internal network.

“This server was only used for marketing campaigns and to host one of the crucial company's blogs. Neither the foremost website (pandasecurity.com) nor (cloudantivirus.com) were affected inside the attack. The attack failed to breach Panda Security's internal network and neither source code, update servers nor customer data was accessed.

“The only information accessed was concerning marketing campaigns reminiscent of landing pages and a few obsolete credentials, including supposed credentials for workers that experience not been working at Panda for over five years. We continue investigating the reason for the intrusion and should provide more details once they become available.

“Meanwhile we assure all our customers and partners that none in their information was compromised and that our services and products continue functioning as normal.”