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Cyber Anakin
cyberanakinvader
Born1996 (age 28–29)[1]
Other namescybanakinvader
OccupationGrey hat hacktivist
Websitehttp://cyberanakinvader.wordpress.com

Cyber Anakin is the pseudonym for an unidentified computer hacktivist who was a teen as of 2016 and had named himself in reference to Anakin Skywalker, a Star Wars character.[2]

History

Early history

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukrainian airspace amidst the War in Donbass. In response to this on year 2016 he started hacking or targeting Russian websites and databases. Among the affected included that of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and most significantly Russian news and emailing site km.ru and Russian gaming company nival.com. These sites held sensitive information; the information gained by him during the breach included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, geographic locations. In the case of KM.RU secret questions and answers were leaked as well meaning that anyone with that information could log on to the email service pretending to be that user. There were 1.5 million victims.[3][4][5]

The KM.RU and Nival data breaches are confirmed as legitimate by computer security researcher Troy Hunt. In a subsequent interview with online news outlet VICE Motherboard, he said that he had done the hacks to avenge against the Russians for causing the MH17 crash, and taunted them for being able to defend against Nazi dictator Hitler but not against hackers.[6][7]

The stolen data in question were eventually cataloged by a group calling themselves "Distributed Denial of Secrets" among other leaked Russian documents/data, under the "Dark side of the Kremlin" collection.[8]

Activities against North Korea

Following the assassination of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s half brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia on February 2017, he announced that “I hereby declare that the servers and entities of China and North Korea is now included into a target list for my black hat hacktivist/cyberwarfare campaign”.

On 2018 he took advantage of an error in a North Korean propaganda website ournation-school.com that erroneously linked to a non-existent Twitter account. As an "April Fools prank" he registered a spoof account under that empty username and posted numerous anti-regime propaganda messages including unflattering images and obscene slurs directed against Kim Jong-un.[9][10][11] The North Korean website in question is run by Kim Il Sung Open University which teaches Juche philosophy teachings in Korean, according to North Korea Tech's website directory.[12]

He was also involved in spreading messages via TV set top boxes in opposition against Article 13 of the European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. In the resulting interview with ZDNet, he expressed concerns that the proposed filter will "let things which shouldn't to pass through and block those that should be allowed." He also warned that the Internet "will become a boring, gloomy place" if MEP Axel Voss "has his way(sic)".[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Archived Twitter profile which showed his birth year
  2. ^ "Teen "Cyber Anakin" hacker wants revenge on Russia after the MH17 crash". news.com.au. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  3. ^ "(Archived) Claim of responsiblity(sic) of some recent Russian database breaches by cyberanakinvader". Reddit. Cyber Anakin. 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  4. ^ "'Cyber Anakin' wants MH17 revenge". Perth Now. 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ^ Starks, Tim. "The RSA takeaway". POLITICO. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ^ "A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash". VICE Motherboard. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  7. ^ "Security News This Week: WhatsApp Is Caught in Its Own Crypto War in Brazil". Wired. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  8. ^ Rötzer, Florian. "Leaks einer US-Gruppe zur "Dark Side of the Kremlin"". Telepolis (in German).
  9. ^ "N Korea error promotes fake Twitter account". BBC News. 12 April 2018.
  10. ^ Lotto Persio, Sofia (12 April 2018). "North Korea has yet to notice one of its propaganda websites links to an anti-Kim Jong Un Twitter account". Newsweek. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  11. ^ "North Korea Has yet to Notice It Got Cyber-Pranked on April Fools Day". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Our Nation School (The North Korean Website List)". North Korea Tech. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  13. ^ Whittaker, Zack. "A protester is spreading anti-Article 13 messages over exposed internet TVs". ZDNet. Retrieved 29 May 2019.


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