Anonymous makes good on its word as it renews its attack on Russia's cybersecurity.
A recent report from the Daily Mail said that the hacking collective had leaked the files it took from Russia's Central bank, including "secret agreements" and the country's economic secrets, per Security Affairs.
Russia's Central Bank is responsible for protecting and ensuring the safety of the Russian Ruble whose value has plummeted due to the various international sanctions placed on the country.
Details of the Hack
According to Security Affairs' report, Anonymous' affiliate group Black Rabbit World leaked the files from Russia's Central Bank. These files, which numbered 35,000, allegedly contain Russia's economic secrets and "secret agreements."
Anonymous did not specify nor give an example of the details of these "secret agreements" in its previous tweet regarding the hack.
According to The Black Rabbit World's tweet on the leaks, it distributed the leaked documents to various points all throughout the internet. However, it shared the files on different links in case these internet points did get censored.
The Black Rabbit World also mentioned in its tweet that the leaked files amounted to 28GB in size.
Many may remember that the hacking collective previously announced on its Twitter page that it had hacked Russia's Central Bank on March 24, 2022, and that it would expose the files it took within 48 hours. Meanwhile, The Black Rabbit World's tweet regarding the files included pictures of documents regarding audits.
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Security Affairs opened the links The Black Rabbit World shared and found that Anonymous arranged the overall data into two folders named A and B, which contained nine parts and one part, respectively. These folders have Offices and TXT files that were written in Cyrillic.
Should the leaked documents turn out to be authentic, this leak could probably be the greatest hack in Anonymous' #OpRussia, an operation Anonymous launched against the Russian government on February 24.
A History of Hacking
A CNBC report mentioned that Anonymous began in the online message forums in 4chan, which was created in 2003 by former Google employee Chris "moot" Poole.
The hacking collective previously organized group pranks, disrupting encrypted chatrooms with various kinds of tomfoolery. These pranks eventually evolved into the hacks we know today, which revolve around social or political aims.
The first of these hacks began in 2008 when the group attacked the Church of Scientology using denial-of-service attacks on the church's websites, prank phone calls, and faxing black pages to the church to waste the church's printer ink.
Anonymous now stands up against governments and corporations that may be participating in censorship or promoting inequality within its ranks. The group believes in freedom of speech, information, accountability for governments and companies, privacy, and anonymity for private citizens, per a @YourAnonNews Tweet.
The group has previously attacked Russia's cybersecurity, hacking streaming services within the country to show on-the-ground footage of the devastation in Ukraine, per an iTech Post article.
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