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Anonymous hackers back track on declaration of war against Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel
Just days after a member of Anonymous publically declared war against a vicious Mexican drug cartel, the hacker collective seems to be in full retreat.
Two hackers, identified as Skill3r and Glyniss Paroubek by the Mexican paper Milenio, said that they would not go through with the initiative over worries that publicizing names could put lives in jeopardy, The Associated Press reported.
"We didn't want irresponsible administrators to condemn participants [in ‘Operation Cartel’] to death,” they told the newspaper in a statement in Spanish.
The about face comes in the wake of a report by Stratfor, a security company, that the drug cartel, Zetas, would launch violent reprisals.
"We have seen reports that Los Zetas are deploying their own teams of computer experts to track those individuals involved in the online anti-cartel campaign, which indicates that the criminal group is taking the campaign very seriously," Stratfor tactical analyst Ben West said in a video released by the company.
"Those individuals involved face the risk of abduction, injury and death — judging by how Los Zetas has dealt with threats in the past."
Members of the group had launched the first salvo against the Zetas drug cartel — blamed in the escalating drug violence in Mexico's Veracruz state — with a YouTube video of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask that circualted the Internet last month.
On the video, the unidentified man warns the cartel that hackers will unmask the iden****** of Zeta supporters in retaliation for a recent kidnapping of an Anonymous member. The masked man then vows in Spanish to release names, photos and addresses of those supporters — which supposedly included police officers — by Friday.
Not all of Anonymous's loose-knit group is ready to back down.
"The dice are already rolling," member Anonymous Hispano posted. "It's not possible even for us to stop them."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...#ixzz1cbZbc6VN
Two hackers, identified as Skill3r and Glyniss Paroubek by the Mexican paper Milenio, said that they would not go through with the initiative over worries that publicizing names could put lives in jeopardy, The Associated Press reported.
"We didn't want irresponsible administrators to condemn participants [in ‘Operation Cartel’] to death,” they told the newspaper in a statement in Spanish.
The about face comes in the wake of a report by Stratfor, a security company, that the drug cartel, Zetas, would launch violent reprisals.
"We have seen reports that Los Zetas are deploying their own teams of computer experts to track those individuals involved in the online anti-cartel campaign, which indicates that the criminal group is taking the campaign very seriously," Stratfor tactical analyst Ben West said in a video released by the company.
"Those individuals involved face the risk of abduction, injury and death — judging by how Los Zetas has dealt with threats in the past."
Members of the group had launched the first salvo against the Zetas drug cartel — blamed in the escalating drug violence in Mexico's Veracruz state — with a YouTube video of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask that circualted the Internet last month.
On the video, the unidentified man warns the cartel that hackers will unmask the iden****** of Zeta supporters in retaliation for a recent kidnapping of an Anonymous member. The masked man then vows in Spanish to release names, photos and addresses of those supporters — which supposedly included police officers — by Friday.
Not all of Anonymous's loose-knit group is ready to back down.
"The dice are already rolling," member Anonymous Hispano posted. "It's not possible even for us to stop them."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...#ixzz1cbZbc6VN
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