#OpJustina ATTRIBUTED_TO Anonymous
The campaign is presented as an Anonymous operation, with the video ending in a declaration that Operation Justina is engaged.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Anonymous EP 14 Details
“Operation Justina engaged.”
Threat actor
threat_actor:anonymous
Also: Anon, Anons, We are Anonymous
Anonymous collective that issued threats and conducted or supported attacks against Boston Children’s Hospital in the name of defending Justina Pelletier.
Anonymous collective that issued threats and conducted or supported attacks against Boston Children’s Hospital in the name of defending Justina Pelletier.
“We are Anonymous”
Decentralized activist hacker collective that conducted anti-ISIS online actions, including reporting accounts and taking down websites.
“We are Anonymous. As most of you know by now, we started a cyber war on ISIS.”
“Anonymous joined in on the fight, too.”
Collective invoked in the episode’s animal-rights operation and associated with attacks, leaks, deletion, and website defacement.
“Operation Fun Kill which is part of like, Anonymous Operation”
“We are Anonymous. We are legion.”
Decentralized hacktivist collective presented as supporting social-justice causes and conducting disruptive and information-disclosure operations.
“Nobody is really a member of Anonymous. At the same time, everyone is really a member of Anonymous.”
“the adoption of Anonymous by me”
Decentralized hacker collective discussed in connection with IRC activity, Twitter claims, and DDoS activity.
“Anonymous was right there at the peak of operations”
“when you had Anonymous bragging about it on Twitter”
Hacktivist movement mentioned as an influence on Ghost Exodus.
“hacktivists like Anonymous were doing at the time”
Online hacking and protest collective discussed as an influence and loose affiliation for MLT and TeaMp0isoN.
“Hacking group Anonymous has struck again”
“MLT felt loosely affiliated with Anonymous”
Decentralized hacking collective and IRC-based scene discussed as the environment from which several other groups emerged.
“This was the hay day of Anonymous”
“I still cringe, but I still feel like it was necessary”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | distributed denial-of-service attack | Explicit | 14 |
| outgoing | USES | phishing | Explicit | 14 |
| outgoing | TARGETS | ISIS | Explicit | 50 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | #OpJustina | Explicit | 14 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Boston Children’s Hospital network attack | Attributed | 14 |
| incoming | PART_OF | Operation Fun Kill | Explicit | 62 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Higinio Ochoa | Explicit | 63 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Anonymous PayPal attack | Explicit | 63 |
| incoming | ATTRIBUTED_TO | NTP DDoS attack | Uncertain | 65 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | MLT | Uncertain | 109 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | TeaMp0isoN | Uncertain | 109 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | AnonSec | Explicit | 139 |
#OpJustina ATTRIBUTED_TO Anonymous
The campaign is presented as an Anonymous operation, with the video ending in a declaration that Operation Justina is engaged.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Anonymous EP 14 Details
“Operation Justina engaged.”
Anonymous USES distributed denial-of-service attack
Anonymous members used denial-of-service attacks against the hospital’s network and public websites.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“members from Anonymous began a network attack on the Boston Children’s Hospital. It was a typical denial-of-service attack”
Attackers associated with Anonymous used phishing emails during the campaign.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“They were sending in a lot of spam e-mails too, and phishing e-mails.”
Boston Children’s Hospital network attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Anonymous
The attack is attributed in the episode to Anonymous, which publicly claimed responsibility for the campaign and was described as conducting the attacks.
Attributed Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“the hospital was under a severe attack from Anonymous”
Anonymous publicly declared a cyber war against ISIS and said it would take down ISIS sites, accounts, and email.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 99% · Anon EP 50 Details
“we started a cyber war on ISIS”
“ISIS, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, e-mails”
Operation Fun Kill PART_OF Anonymous
Cam describes Operation Fun Kill as part of an Anonymous operation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cameron EP 62 Details
“he was involved in Operation Fun Kill which is part of like, Anonymous Operation”
Higinio Ochoa ASSOCIATED_WITH Anonymous
Higinio says he adopted Anonymous because its ideals combined fun with social justice, while Jack emphasizes that Anonymous has no well-defined membership.
Explicit Confidence 96% · W0Rmer EP 63 Details
“that kind of lent itself from the adoption of Anonymous by me”
“Nobody is really a member of Anonymous.”
Anonymous PayPal attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Anonymous
Jack says a group of Anonymous people decided to take PayPal offline in retaliation for its treatment of WikiLeaks.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 63 Details
“a group of Anonymous people decided to take PayPal offline”
NTP DDoS attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Anonymous
The episode presents Anonymous as having publicly claimed or bragged about the NTP DDoS attack, but the attribution is based on that public claim rather than independently established evidence.
Uncertain Confidence 82% · Jonathan Nichols EP 65 Details
“In those days it was fairly easy when you had Anonymous bragging about it on Twitter.”
MLT felt loosely affiliated with Anonymous and observed activity in its IRC chat rooms; this was not presented as formal membership.
Uncertain Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 109 Details
“For a while, MLT felt loosely affiliated with Anonymous”
TeaMp0isoN ASSOCIATED_WITH Anonymous
TeaMp0isoN sprang out of Anonymous and was once loosely affiliated with it, but later separated itself from Anonymous.
Uncertain Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 109 Details
“TeaMp0isoN sort of sprang out of Anonymous and was once loosely affiliated with them”
AnonSec ASSOCIATED_WITH Anonymous
AnonSec was associated with Anonymous by name, although Default says it was anti-Anonymous and disliked receiving attribution as Anonymous.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Default EP 139 Details
“it got associated with Anonymous so much”