INTERWEB WARS

Hackers attack one another: LulzSec at war with Anonymous, 4Chan members

LulzSec, the Internet group that is very vocal about its hacking escapades, seems to have gone to war with members of 4Chan, an Internet message board, and Anonymous, the activist hacker group whose members come from 4Chan.

LulzSec, the hacking group that recently hacked PBS and SONY, is now openly taunting members of the internet image board 4chan, and specifically the members of its /b/ group, otherwise known as the hacker group “Anonymous”.

Lulz Security is even crowd-sourcing prank calls against 4chan’s web hosting company via their hotline: 614-LULZSEC.

In response, 4chan users have initiated an all-out internet manhunt to track down members of LulzSec.

A poster making the rounds on the Internet appears to have been created by Anonymous or members of 4Chan. It calls for people to identify the members of LulzSec or alert the FBI if they know who they are. The poster contains graphic and offensive language.

THIS IS NOT THE POSTER - THE ACTUAL POSTER IS VERY OFFENSIVE

On Tuesday, LulzSec tweeted: "Challenged accepted, losers :D," acknowledging the group was aware that members of 4Chan were after it.

A day later LulzSec tweeted a message implying it had launched a denial of service attack on 4Chan's Web hosting company in an effort to take it down.

"Sorry Anonymous, your LOIC hive is no match for our phone redirect hive. A certain hosting company just got 1000+ calls," LulzSec tweeted.

Anonymous says it has an activist agenda, most recently hacking websites of the Turkish government in support of freedom of speech. It didn't seem bothered by LulzSec's attacks on PBS, Fox or Sony. But when LulzSec appeared to have tried to crash the Web servers for three popular Internet games -- League of Legends, Minecraft and EVE Online -- 4Chan and Anonymous members seemed to have become frustrated with their hacker counterparts.

Lulzsec says “For the past month and a bit, we’ve been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony,” said the group in a statement posted to Pastebin.

Not only is LulzSec now engaged in an all-out war with 4chan, these hackers were also busy today taking down the CIA website.

That’s right, the CIA’s official website at www.cia.gov is currently down and out with LulzSec posting the following tweet:

The sentiment — that LulzSec is doing us all a favor by publicizing their dastardly deeds — is actually shared by a growing number of people the “white hat” (i.e. non-criminal) cybersecurity industry. These people, tasked with protecting us from their evil counterparts, have been trying desperately for ages to explain the cornucopia of risks that goes with life online. Until now, however, few have paid attention. Instead, most of us non-hackers hide behind paper walls of anti-virus software, thinking we’re all-good. LulzSec simply forces us to pay attention.

I hope these guys know what they’re getting into, as the government has declared that any and all hacking attempts will be viewed as an act of war.

It’s pretty incredible that LulzSec was able to take down the CIA. It makes you wonder what other so-called “secure” websites they can hack into? Is our personal financial information more at risk that it was 24 hours ago?