According to British security group Mi2g, three groups of hackers in the middle east are preparing to wreak havok on computer systems in Israel, India, G.B., and the U.S.. I am including a link to a story done by TechTV on this subject,
http://www.techtv.com/news/security/...392443,00.html , and I am also pasting the text from the related story on the Mi2g website in the space below
" London, UK - 18th June 2002, 15:30 GMT – There is mounting evidence that individual hacker groups are coalescing and becoming interconnected through a common pro-Islamic agenda. Each aggregate group is carrying out digital attacks under a common banner and has pooled expertise to pronounce judgement and forcibly broadcast political views, which are anti-Israel, anti-US/UK and anti-India.
These hacker alliances produce elaborate multimedia propaganda of their collective ideology as part of their destructive payload, which combines several issues such as the Middle East conflict, the War on Terrorism and the Kashmir standoff. According to the correlations mapped using the mi2g SIPS database, the three main pro-Islamic and anti- US, Israel and India aggregate hacker groups are:
1. USG (Unix Security Guards), an anti-Israel alliance was formed in early May this year and has been responsible for 87 overt digital attacks since. They consist of four member groups - Egyptian Fighter, rD, Inkubus and ShellCode. Egyptian Fighter was responsible for the largest number of digital attacks this year on Israeli (.il) sites. USG and its members are collectively responsible for 161 overt digital attacks to date.
2. WFD (World’s Fantabulous Defacers), a Pakistani alliance of 12 member groups has overtly attacked 445 sites since November 2000 with messages opposing the Indian presence in Kashmir or the occupation of Palestine by Israel. In a recent anti-Israeli overt digital attack, WFD acknowledged 32 other hacker groups and individuals, many of them with anti-US/UK and anti-India agendas.
3. AIC (Anti-India Crew), a Pakistani alliance established in July 2001, is also prolifically carrying out digital attacks with anti-India and anti-US/UK messages. AIC is responsible for 422 attacks to date, 77 of them on Indian (.in) sites, some of those in collaboration with WFD.
Both USG and AIC have become very active, carrying out a total of 111 overt digital attacks between them in May at the height of tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Sites attacked include those of universities and educational institutions, businesses, hotels and retailers.
DK Matai, mi2g’s Chairman & CEO said, “The most important lesson learnt from these events is the coming together of pro-Islamic groups to simultaneously participate in joint digital attacks on US/UK, Israeli and Indian targets. Historically, the US has been allied with Pakistan. It seems that recent political and cyberspace events are both pointing towards a closer alignment of interests in the near future between the US, India and Israel.”
Hacktivism has mirrored international political conflict since the late ‘90s with two key events being the NATO-Serbia and China-Taiwan conflicts in 1999. In 2002, this has been evident during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when the Israeli army occupied Palestinian territories, both in the sudden explosion of overt digital attacks on Israeli sites and the heavy political content of the multimedia messages left."
Hacktivism...I never looked at it like this, but I guess that would be the best term to use for politically motivated hacking.
