Anonymous Activities

Anonymous Activities
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Anonymous Activities
“Anonymous” is a decentralized group of hackers associated with numerous high-profile internet attacks on financial institutions, governments, religious groups as well as large corporations. The international hackers associated with this group are believed to be encouraged by the desire to counter government control, combat censorship, and to promote freedom of speech. Their main activities associated with this group include defacement of websites, crashing web servers, and accessing and leaking private information from their targets’ websites. Using computers, this group of hackers can crack passwords or get their target to reveal information through phishing emails. (Jarvis, 2014).
In one of their recent activities, anonymous hackers knocked down a large number of the websites on the dark web which is believed to be the most untraceable area of the internet. This was an external attack which involved shutting down thousands of websites on the dark web. Anonymous claimed that the motivation behind the attack was to protest against child pornography promoted by these sites. In another recent activity, Anonymous threatened to make Donald Trump regret his four years in office. This is after the group had previous leaked personal information believed to be from Donald Trump’s phone. They accused the president of having personal ties with money launders and Russian mobsters. Ravitch, 2017).
Another notable activity of the anonymous group was the denial of services attacks directed to different governmental departments in Thailand including the defense Thailand’s website, Tai Police website, and Tourism and Sports website.

These attacks were motivated by the hackers’ efforts to protest against the approval of the amendments to the Computer Crime Act by the Thai government. All these attacks show the way that hacking has evolved with the recent advancements in technology. Hackers can literally commit crimes without the target knowing. They continue to advance as the viral infection on computers now increasingly seems to be unstoppable. (Uitermark, 2017).
References
Jarvis, J. L. (2014). Digital image politics: the networked rhetoric of Anonymous. Global Discourse, 4(2-3), 326-349.
Ravitch, D. (January 21, 2017). Hackers Called “Anonymous” Warn Donald Trump. Diane Ravitch’s Blog | a Site to Discuss Better Education for All, 2017-1.
Uitermark, J. (2017). Complex contention: analyzing power dynamics within Anonymous. Social Movement Studies, 16(4), 403-417.