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'''Cyber Anakin''' (also known by the handle '''cyberanakinvader''') is the pseudonym of a computer [[hacktivist]].<ref name=":0" />
'''Cyber Anakin''' is the pseudonym of a computer [[hacktivist]] who named himself after [[Anakin Skywalker]], a ''[[Star Wars]]'' character.<ref>{{cite news |title=Teen 'Cyber Anakin' hacker wants revenge on Russia after the MH17 crash |url=http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/teen-cyber-anakin-hacker-wants-revenge-on-russia-after-the-mh17-crash/news-story/bb2eecdc37c54f2b5b3800dd26ef4caf |newspaper=[[news.com.au]] |date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220154359/http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/teen-cyber-anakin-hacker-wants-revenge-on-russia-after-the-mh17-crash/news-story/bb2eecdc37c54f2b5b3800dd26ef4caf |url-status=live }}</ref>


==History==
==Career==


Cyber Anakin, who was then a teen, said that in 2016, in retaliation against Russia for the shooting-down of [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17]], he started targeting Russian websites and databases. The information gained from the news site and email provider km.ru and gaming company [[Nival (company)|Nival Networks]] during the breaches included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, and geographic locations. There were 1.5 million victims.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=March 5, 2016 |title=A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-teen-hacker-is-targeting-russian-sites-as-revenge-for-the-mh17-crash |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924214630/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgkp57/a-teen-hacker-is-targeting-russian-sites-as-revenge-for-the-mh17-crash |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |newspaper=[[VICE Media|VICE]] Motherboard}}</ref> The content of the km.ru data breach was used to assist [[Latvia]]n independent news website [[Meduza]] in establishing the identity of a man who had been sexually harassing female chess players by sending them letters containing used condoms and pages from [[pornographic magazine]]s.<ref name=":Meduza">{{cite web |title=Это похоже на крик души. Но я не знаю, о чем он кричит Больше десяти лет кто-то присылает российским шахматисткам письма с использованными презервативами и порно. Мы нашли этого человека |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/02/07/eto-pohozhe-na-krik-dushi-no-ya-ne-znayu-o-chem-on-krichit |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416142131/https://meduza.io/feature/2022/02/07/eto-pohozhe-na-krik-dushi-no-ya-ne-znayu-o-chem-on-krichit |archive-date=April 16, 2022 |access-date=December 27, 2022 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}</ref>
===Early history===
On July 17, 2014, [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17]] was shot down in [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] airspace amidst the [[War in Donbass]]. At the time Cyber Anakin was a student "doing his [[math]] homework" when he first heard about the crash on [[Interfax]]; in an interview he stated that before the incident he had simply want to be more like [[Canada|Canadian]] singer [[Justin Bieber]] so that he won't have to do school homework, although what he had actually became is "a much less harmless story". Initially after the crash he hoped that the plane would at least land safely as happened with [[Korean Air Lines Flight 902]] and was even ready to forgive those responsible for the fall of the plane, if it turned out to be the result of human error. However the Russian representatives began to [[disinformation|deflect]] the blame from their own regarding the crash, causing Cyber Anakin to take revenge against [[Russia]] instead. For another two years after the fall of MH17, Cyber Anakin could not do anything because he "lacked knowledge". Furthermore, an emotional breaking point occurred in 2015, during the vote of draft [[United Nations]] resolution S/2015/562 that called for the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the crash which was [[United Nations Security Council veto power|vetoed]] by then [[Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations]] [[Vitaly Churkin]].<ref name=":Meduza">{{cite web |title=Это похоже на крик души. Но я не знаю, о чем он кричит Больше десяти лет кто-то присылает российским шахматисткам письма с использованными презервативами и порно. Мы нашли этого человека |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/02/07/eto-pohozhe-na-krik-dushi-no-ya-ne-znayu-o-chem-on-krichit |website=Meduza |access-date=12 April 2022 |language=ru |archive-date=April 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416142131/https://meduza.io/feature/2022/02/07/eto-pohozhe-na-krik-dushi-no-ya-ne-znayu-o-chem-on-krichit |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Медуза"*: российские шахматистки больше десяти лет получали письма с использованными презервативами |url=https://rtvi.com/news/meduza-rossiyskie-shakhmatistki-bolshe-desyati-let-poluchali-pisma-s-ispolzovannymi-prezervativami/ |website=Главные новости мира — последние события в мире сегодня {{!}} RTVI |access-date=12 April 2022 |language=ru |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417064034/https://rtvi.com/news/meduza-rossiyskie-shakhmatistki-bolshe-desyati-let-poluchali-pisma-s-ispolzovannymi-prezervativami/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=S/2015/562 |url=https://undocs.org/en/S/2015/562 |website=undocs.org |access-date=23 April 2022 |archive-date=January 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124224102/https://undocs.org/en/S/2015/562 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=S/PV.7498 |url=https://undocs.org/en/S/PV.7498 |website=undocs.org |access-date=23 April 2022 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183735/https://undocs.org/en/S/PV.7498 |url-status=live }}</ref>


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In April 2018, Cyber Anakin took advantage of an error in a [[Propaganda in North Korea|North Korean propaganda]] website that erroneously linked to a non-existent Twitter account.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Martyn |title=Mischief with Our Nation website |url=https://www.northkoreatech.org/2018/04/07/mischief-with-our-nation-website/ |website=North Korea Tech - 노스코리아테크 |access-date=August 15, 2019 |date=April 6, 2018 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512141259/https://www.northkoreatech.org/2018/04/07/mischief-with-our-nation-website/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As an "[[April Fools' Joke|April Fools prank]]" he registered a spoof account under that unused username and posted numerous anti-DPRK [[propaganda]] messages including unflattering images and obscene slurs directed against [[Kim Jong-un]].<ref>{{cite web |title=North Korea error promotes fake Twitter account |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43737381 |work=BBC News |date=April 12, 2018 |access-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419060155/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43737381 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2016, in order to retaliate against Russia and after learning [[Hacker|hacking]] methods, Cyber Anakin, who was then a teen, started targeting Russian websites and databases, including the [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]], news site and email provider km.ru and gaming company [[Nival (company)|Nival Networks]]. The information gained during the breaches included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, and geographic locations. In the case of km.ru, secret questions and answers were obtained. There were 1.5&nbsp;million victims.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/43nhdy/claim_of_responsiblity_of_some_recent_russian/| title = (Archived) Claim of {{as written|responsi|blity [sic]}} of some recent Russian database breaches by cyberanakinvader| website = [[Reddit]]| publisher = Cyber Anakin|date=February 1, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160204104943/https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/43nhdy/claim_of_responsiblity_of_some_recent_russian/|access-date = May 29, 2019| archive-date = February 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Cyber Anakin" wants MH17 revenge |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/security/teen-cyber-anakin-hacker-wants-revenge-on-russia-after-the-mh17-crash-ng-bb2eecdc37c54f2b5b3800dd26ef4caf |website=Perth Now |access-date=May 29, 2019 |date=March 5, 2016 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529143424/https://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/security/teen-cyber-anakin-hacker-wants-revenge-on-russia-after-the-mh17-crash-ng-bb2eecdc37c54f2b5b3800dd26ef4caf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Starks |first1=Tim |title=The RSA takeaway |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 |website=POLITICO |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529134238/https://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 |url-status=live }}</ref>


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In June 2018, Cyber Anakin took advantage of a security flaw present in internet connected [[set-top boxes]], to temporarily deface a small number of television sets with messages in opposition to [[Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market#Draft Article 13 (Directive Article 17)|Article 13]] of the [[European Union]]'s [[Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market]]. In an 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".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whittaker |first1=Zack |title=A protester is spreading anti-Article 13 messages over exposed internet TVs |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/protester-spreading-article-13-warnings-over-exposed-internet-tv/ |publisher=ZDNet |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615140428/https://www.zdnet.com/article/protester-spreading-article-13-warnings-over-exposed-internet-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The km.ru and Nival data breaches were confirmed by computer security researcher [[Troy Hunt]]. In a subsequent interview with online news outlet [[Vice (magazine)|VICE]] Motherboard, Cyber Anakin said that he had done the hacks in retaliation for the Russians causing the MH17 crash.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-teen-hacker-is-targeting-russian-sites-as-revenge-for-the-mh17-crash |newspaper=[[VICE Media|VICE]] Motherboard |date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924214630/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgkp57/a-teen-hacker-is-targeting-russian-sites-as-revenge-for-the-mh17-crash |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Security News This Week: WhatsApp Is Caught in Its Own Crypto War in Brazil |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/03/security-news-week-whatsapp-faces-crypto-war/ |newspaper=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=March 5, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804004549/https://www.wired.com/2016/03/security-news-week-whatsapp-faces-crypto-war/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


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Cyber Anakin said that he [[website defacement|defaced the website]] of the [[Khuzestan]] Water and Power Authority following the shooting-down of [[Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752]] in January 2020, placing the names of Flight 752's victims on its webpage.<ref name=":iran2">{{cite web |last1=Batebi |first1=Ahmad |title=Interview with an Outraged, Grief Stricken Hacktivist |url=https://iranwire.com/en/features/6653 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722091323/https://iranwire.com/en/features/6653 |archive-date=July 22, 2021 |access-date=February 17, 2020 |website=IranWire |language=en}}</ref>
The stolen data were eventually cataloged by a group calling themselves "[[Distributed Denial of Secrets]]" among other leaked Russian documents/data, under the "Dark side of the Kremlin" collection.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rötzer |first1=Florian |title=Leaks einer US-Gruppe zur "Dark Side of the Kremlin" |url=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Leaks-einer-US-Gruppe-zur-Dark-Side-of-the-Kremlin-4288852.html |website=Telepolis |language=de |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529123807/https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Leaks-einer-US-Gruppe-zur-Dark-Side-of-the-Kremlin-4288852.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Besides that he performed [[denial-of-service attacks]] against several Russian websites such as those belonging to [[Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev]], [[Moscow Metro]], and [[Kaliningrad]] Regional [[Duma]], in support of [[Ksenia Sobchak]]'s presidential campaign during the [[2018 Russian presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Хакер Cyber Anakin: попытаюсь сорвать выборы в России |url=http://internetua.com/cyber-anakin-poptauas-sorvat-vbor-v-rossii |website=internetua.com |access-date=15 August 2019 |language=Ukrainian |archive-date=August 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815123553/http://internetua.com/cyber-anakin-poptauas-sorvat-vbor-v-rossii |url-status=live }}</ref>

Eventually [[Latvia]]-based independent news website [[Meduza]] used the content of KM.RU's data breach to pinpoint the identity of a person who has been harassing female chess players of various countries such as Russia, [[Kazakhstan]] and [[India]] with the delivery of mails containing used condoms, as [[FIDE titles#International Master (IM)|IM]] Andrejs Strebkovs.<ref name=":Meduza" />

===Activities against North Korea===
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In 2018, as a response to the [[assassination of Kim Jong-nam]], Cyber Anakin took advantage of an error in a [[North Korea]]n propaganda website ournation-school.com that erroneously linked to a non-existent Twitter account @juche_school1 instead of its actual official profile @juche_school (without the number 1).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Martyn |title=Mischief with Our Nation website |url=https://www.northkoreatech.org/2018/04/07/mischief-with-our-nation-website/ |website=North Korea Tech - 노스코리아테크 |access-date=15 August 2019 |date=6 April 2018 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512141259/https://www.northkoreatech.org/2018/04/07/mischief-with-our-nation-website/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As an "April Fools prank" he registered a spoof account under that empty username and posted numerous anti-DPRK propaganda messages including unflattering images and obscene slurs directed against Kim Jong-un.<ref>{{cite web |title=N Korea error promotes fake Twitter account |url=http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43737381 |work=BBC News |date=April 12, 2018 |access-date=May 26, 2018 |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419060155/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43737381 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":Newsweek" /><ref>{{cite web |title=North Korea Has yet to Notice It Got Cyber-Pranked on April Fools Day |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-yet-notice-got-174150719.html |publisher=Yahoo! News |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=December 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208112126/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-yet-notice-got-174150719.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McCoy |first1=Erin L. |title=Cyberterrorism |date=December 15, 2018 |publisher=Cavendish Square |isbn=9781502640413 |pages=7 |edition=First}}</ref> According to [[North Korea Tech]]'s website directory, the ournation-school.com website is run by Kim Il Sung Open University which teaches [[Juche]] philosophy teachings in Korean.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Nation School (The North Korean Website List) |url=https://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/our-nation-school/ |website=[[North Korea Tech]] |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529122458/https://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/our-nation-school/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Opposition against European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market===
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He was also involved in spreading messages via TV [[Set-top box|set top boxes]] in opposition against Article 13 of the [[European Union]]'s [[Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market]]. In an 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 [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Axel Voss]] "has his way".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whittaker |first1=Zack |title=A protester is spreading anti-Article 13 messages over exposed internet TVs |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/protester-spreading-article-13-warnings-over-exposed-internet-tv/ |publisher=ZDNet |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=June 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615140428/https://www.zdnet.com/article/protester-spreading-article-13-warnings-over-exposed-internet-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Subsequent activities===
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In the aftermath of the [[Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752]] shoot-down, Cyber Anakin [[website defacement|defaced the website]] of the Water and Power Organization of [[Khuzestan]], [[Iran]] and placed the names of Flight 752's victims on its webpage. His nationality was hinted but not confirmed to be Iranian.<ref name=":iran">{{cite web |last1=Batebi |first1=Ahmad |title=Interview with an Outraged, Grief Stricken Hacktivist |url=https://iranwire.com/en/features/6653 |website=IranWire |access-date=17 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722091323/https://iranwire.com/en/features/6653 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Since 2019, Cyber Anakin was involved in an effort that was named #FreeHKSaveKorea by employing methods such as printer hacking in order to spread a modified version of a peace plan first proposed in the book "Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff" written by former [[Inha University]] professor Shepherd Iverson.<ref name="googlebooks-iverson">{{cite book |last1=Iverson |first1=Shepherd |title=Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff |date=16 April 2019 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlYjugEACAAJ |access-date=6 February 2021 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |language=en |isbn=978-0-80485-182-4 |via=Googlebooks |archive-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606213753/https://books.google.com/books?id=AlYjugEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the book he suggested "buying out North Korea" with a $175 billion fund to achieve [[Korean reunification|re-unification of the Korean peninsula]]. Shortly after that it was further disseminated by the [[Anonymous (group)|Anonymous hacking collective]] during their [[Timeline of events associated with Anonymous#Pro-Taiwan hacks|United Nations hack]].<ref name=":iran" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Everington |first1=Keoni |title=Anonymous adds Taiwan back to WHO |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3872876 |website=www.taiwannews.com.tw |date=February 7, 2020 |publisher=Taiwan News |access-date=17 February 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022100532/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3872876 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kim Jong-un Removal Will Cost $175 Billion, Claims A New Theory |url=https://www.inquisitr.com/4212098/kim-jong-un-removal-will-cost-175-billion-claims-a-new-theory/ |website=www.inquisitr.com |access-date=17 February 2020 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006100810/https://www.inquisitr.com/4212098/kim-jong-un-removal-will-cost-175-billion-claims-a-new-theory/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Could we pay the North Korean elite to give up power and nukes? {{!}} NK News |url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/04/could-we-pay-the-north-korean-elite-to-give-up-power-and-nukes/ |website=NK News - North Korea News |access-date=17 February 2020 |date=28 April 2017 |archive-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722052430/https://www.nknews.org/2017/04/could-we-pay-the-north-korean-elite-to-give-up-power-and-nukes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Cyber Anakin participated in the OpenVaccine project of the [[game with a purpose]] platform [[EteRNA]] that aims to assist the creation of [[COVID-19 vaccine]] where he submitted one solution.<ref>{{cite bioRxiv |last1=Wayment-Steele |first1=Hannah K. |last2=Kim |first2=Do Soon |last3=Choe |first3=Christian A. |last4=Nicol |first4=John J. |last5=Wellington-Oguri |first5=Roger |last6=Sperberg |first6=R. Andres Parra |last7=Huang |first7=Po-Ssu |last8=Participants |first8=Eterna |last9=Das |first9=Rhiju |title=Theoretical basis for stabilizing messenger RNA through secondary structure design |pages=2020.08.22.262931 |language=en |biorxiv=10.1101/2020.08.22.262931 |date=24 August 2020}}{{pmid|32869022}}{{pmc|7457604}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Supplementary table of bioRxiv paper "Theoretical basis for stabilizing messenger RNA through secondary structure design" |url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/08/24/2020.08.22.262931/DC1/embed/media-1.xlsx?download=true |website=bioRxiv |access-date=28 December 2020 |archive-date=July 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720073259/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/08/24/2020.08.22.262931/DC1/embed/media-1.xlsx?download=true |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2022 according to ''[[Taiwan News]]'', he had contracted [[COVID-19]] and under five days long "Operation Wrath of Anakin: No Time to Die", hacked [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] computer systems which included government websites, agricultural management systems, coal mine safety interfaces, nuclear power plant interfaces, and satellite interfaces, as acts of retaliation. Cyber Anakin also left a "souvenir" in the form of defacement page on the systems that included flags of various [[Secession in China|separatist movements in China]] specifically that of [[Tibet]], [[Taiwan]], [[East Turkestan]], [[Southern Mongolia]], and [[Black Bauhinia flag]] used during [[2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]]. Besides that, the "souvenir" contains a memorial for [[Li Wenliang]] and [[List of deaths due to COVID-19|a list of notable people who have died from COVID-19]] as well.<ref name=":ukraine">{{cite web |last1=News |first1=Taiwan |title=Anonymous' Cyber Anakin hacks 5 Russian websites over Ukraine war {{!}} Taiwan News {{!}} 2022-04-12 18:33:00 |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4504770 |website=Taiwan News |access-date=12 April 2022 |date=12 April 2022 |archive-date=April 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412145715/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4504770 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=News |first1=Taiwan |title=Anonymous warns China not to 'try anything stupid against Taiwan' {{!}} Taiwan News {{!}} 2022-05-06 19:30:00 |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4530064 |website=Taiwan News |access-date=9 May 2022 |date=6 May 2022 |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509183504/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4530064 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine===
After the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine]] had occurred, acting on behalf of decentralized hacking collective [[Anonymous (hacker group)|Anonymous]] he defaced five Russian websites, specifically the Russian heavy metal band Aria's site, a Russian hockey site, a Panerai watch enthusiasts site, a basketball team site, and an educational organization site, on [[Cosmonautics Day]] which commemorates cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]]'s [[Vostok 1]] mission to space. Materials posted on the hacked sites included pop up messages such as "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the defenders" and "I find the orcs lack of morality disturbing", videos featuring [[Darth Vader]] and the ''[[Star Wars]]'' song "[[The Imperial March]]," the online game [[Roblox]], disco song "[[Kung Fu Fighting]]", Mandopop music video "[[Fragile (Namewee song)|Fragile]]", a performance of Ukraine's national anthem by cellist [[Yo-Yo Ma]], and memes showing characters wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and the acronym "A.S.S." which stands for "Anonymous Strategic Support". Besides that, the hacktivist includes a list of "post-war settlement solutions" proposed by Anonymous; examples included financial compensation for the victims of [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17]], the establishment of a [[United Nations]] [[List of territories governed by the United Nations|interim administration]] in [[Occupied territories of Ukraine|occupied territories of Ukraine]], a referendum on the status of such territories, creation of a neutral security belt in the region, monetary reparations of at least US$70 billion to Ukraine for reconstruction, the fulfillment of [[Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956]] to presumably resolve the [[Kuril Islands dispute]], cession of some Russian [[Research stations in Antarctica|Antarctic bases]] to countries such as [[Iran]], agreement to a potential enlargement of UN Security Council to include Brazil, South Africa and India with the increase of the minimum number of a successful veto to two or more, alongside unusual ones such as the pooling of funds from Russia to develop novel treatments against [[COVID-19]] such as [[DRACO|DRACO (double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer)]] and [[long COVID]] experimental treatment drug BC 007, and to construct a [[knowledge ark]] in [[outer space|space]], ideally located at least in the middle region of the [[Asteroid Belt]] within [[Solar System]].<ref name=":ukraine" /><ref>{{cite web |title=19:15 (Вс), 11 Апреля 2021 состоялся матч между ХК Ice Sharks и ХК Черняховские Медведи |url=https://www.hockey39.ru/news/view/1915-vs-11-aprela-2021-sostoalsa-matc-mezdu-hk-ice-sharks-i-hk-cernahovskie-medvedi |website=www.hockey39.ru |access-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411165921/https://www.hockey39.ru/news/view/1915-vs-11-aprela-2021-sostoalsa-matc-mezdu-hk-ice-sharks-i-hk-cernahovskie-medvedi |archive-date=11 April 2021 |language=ru-RU}}</ref>


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*[http://cyberanakinvader.wordpress.com/ Cyber Anakin's blog on Wordpress]

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Latest revision as of 13:25, 21 October 2024

  • Cyber Anakin
OccupationHacktivist
Known forHacking and defacing systems
Websitecyberanakinvader.wordpress.com

Cyber Anakin (also known by the handle cyberanakinvader) is the pseudonym of a computer hacktivist.[1]

Career

Cyber Anakin, who was then a teen, said that in 2016, in retaliation against Russia for the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, he started targeting Russian websites and databases. The information gained from the news site and email provider km.ru and gaming company Nival Networks during the breaches included dates of birth, encrypted passwords, and geographic locations. There were 1.5 million victims.[1] The content of the km.ru data breach was used to assist Latvian independent news website Meduza in establishing the identity of a man who had been sexually harassing female chess players by sending them letters containing used condoms and pages from pornographic magazines.[2]

In April 2018, Cyber Anakin took advantage of an error in a North Korean propaganda website that erroneously linked to a non-existent Twitter account.[3] As an "April Fools prank" he registered a spoof account under that unused username and posted numerous anti-DPRK propaganda messages including unflattering images and obscene slurs directed against Kim Jong-un.[4]

In June 2018, Cyber Anakin took advantage of a security flaw present in internet connected set-top boxes, to temporarily deface a small number of television sets with messages in opposition to Article 13 of the European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. In an 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".[5]

Cyber Anakin said that he defaced the website of the Khuzestan Water and Power Authority following the shooting-down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in January 2020, placing the names of Flight 752's victims on its webpage.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash". VICE Motherboard. March 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  2. ^ "Это похоже на крик души. Но я не знаю, о чем он кричит Больше десяти лет кто-то присылает российским шахматисткам письма с использованными презервативами и порно. Мы нашли этого человека". Meduza (in Russian). Archived from the original on April 16, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  3. ^ Williams, Martyn (April 6, 2018). "Mischief with Our Nation website". North Korea Tech - 노스코리아테크. Archived from the original on May 12, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. ^ "North Korea error promotes fake Twitter account". BBC News. April 12, 2018. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  5. ^ Whittaker, Zack. "A protester is spreading anti-Article 13 messages over exposed internet TVs". ZDNet. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  6. ^ Batebi, Ahmad. "Interview with an Outraged, Grief Stricken Hacktivist". IranWire. Archived from the original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
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