#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.”
Episode
01 March 2018 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode covers the Anonymous campaign against Boston Children’s Hospital, including denial-of-service attacks, phishing, unauthorized mail-server access, the FBI investigation, and Martin Gottesfeld’s prosecution.
Topics: Distributed denial-of-service attacks, Phishing and social engineering, Email-server compromise, IP blocking and source-IP rotation, Proxy-based attacker anonymization, Network incident response, Public-facing web and donor portals, Cybercrime investigation using platform account data, Unauthorized access to conference calls and email, Hospital cybersecurity and resource constraints
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#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.”
#OpJustina TARGETS Boston Children’s Hospital
The campaign targeted Boston Children’s Hospital in response to the dispute over Justina Pelletier.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“members from Anonymous began a network attack on the Boston Children’s Hospital”
#OpJustina INVOLVES distributed denial-of-service attack
The campaign involved repeated distributed denial-of-service attacks against the hospital.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“the DOS against the hospital was growing larger and getting more serious”
#OpJustina INVOLVES phishing
The campaign involved phishing emails that were used to gain access to the hospital’s mail server.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“They were sending in a lot of spam e-mails too, and phishing e-mails.”
#OpJustina INVOLVES spam email
The campaign involved sending large volumes of spam email to the hospital.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“They were sending in a lot of spam e-mails too”
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 INVOLVES distributed denial-of-service attack
The hospital network attack involved a prolonged distributed denial-of-service attack that lasted approximately three weeks.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“After three weeks of a continuous distributed denial-of-service attack, the network traffic returned to normal.”
Boston Children’s Hospital network attack INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA phishing
Initial access to the hospital’s mail server was obtained after an employee clicked a phishing email.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“At some point an employee of the hospital clicked on a phishing e-mail and hackers were able to get into the hospital’s mail server.”
Boston Children’s Hospital network attack COMPROMISES mail server
The attackers gained access to and read email from the hospital’s mail server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“hackers were able to get into the hospital’s mail server. They started reading e-mails”
Boston Children’s Hospital network attack INVOLVES Harvard University
The attack affected part of Harvard’s network because Harvard University shared the network with Boston Children’s Hospital.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“Harvard University is affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital [00:15:00] and they shared the same network.”
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”
Boston Children’s Hospital network attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Martin Gottesfeld
Jack says the evidence suggests Martin Gottesfeld started the campaign and waged the attacks himself, while noting that the courts would decide the issue.
Uncertain Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“it seems like Martin was the person who started this campaign and waged the attacks himself. But the courts will ultimately decide that.”
Martin Gottesfeld USES distributed denial-of-service attack
In a letter attributed to Martin Gottesfeld, he said he coded and ran the attack that took down the hospital’s donations page; the surrounding episode identifies that attack as a DDoS campaign.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“I coded around the clock for two weeks to perfect the attack.”
“Boston Children’s Hospital’s donations page went down.”
Free Marty G ASSOCIATED_WITH Martin Gottesfeld
The Free Marty G campaign was established in support of Martin Gottesfeld while he was jailed awaiting trial.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 14 Details
“Martin’s wife has set up a campaign called Free Marty G”
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