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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 hacktivist who was a teenager as of 2016 and who started targeting Russian websites and databases as revenge for the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 during the War in Donbass.[2][3]

History

Early history

It is widely believed that the hacktivist had named himself "Cyber Anakin" in reference to Anakin Skywalker, a Star Wars character.[4]

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in Ukrainian airspace. In response to this he started targeting Russian websites and databases by the year 2016; targeted sites included that of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and most significantly Russian news and emailing site km.ru and nival.com, a Russian gaming company. These sites held sensitive information; the information gained by him during the breach included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, geographic locations, and secret questions and answers, meaning that anyone with that information could log on pretending to be that user. There were 1.5 million victims. [5][6]

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.[7]

The stolen data in question were eventually cataloged by a group calling themselves "Distributed Denial of Secrets", 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. 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 EU MEP Axel Voss "has his way(sic)".[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Archived Twitter profile which showed his birth year
  2. ^ Template:Url=http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016/03/the-rsa-takeaway-how-the-fbi-shifted-course-on-the-encryption-fight-whats-a-cyber-pathogen-213066
  3. ^ "Security News This Week: WhatsApp Is Caught in Its Own Crypto War in Brazil". Wired. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  4. ^ "Teen ‘Cyber Anakin’ hacker wants revenge on Russia after the MH17 crash". news.com.au. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-02-22. {{cite news}}: C1 control character in |title= at position 6 (help)
  5. ^ "A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash". Motherboard. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  6. ^ "(Archived) Claim of responsiblity(sic) of some recent Russian database breaches by cyberanakinvader". Reddit. Cyber Anakin. 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  7. ^ "A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash". VICE Motherboard. 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  8. ^ https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Leaks-einer-US-Gruppe-zur-Dark-Side-of-the-Kremlin-4288852.html
  9. ^ http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43737381
  10. ^ http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-has-yet-notice-it-got-cyber-pranked-april-fools-883789
  11. ^ https://uk.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-yet-notice-got-174150719.html
  12. ^ https://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/our-nation-school/
  13. ^ https://www.zdnet.com/article/protester-spreading-article-13-warnings-over-exposed-internet-tv/


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