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  • Cyber Anakin
  • cyberanakinvader[1]
Born1996 (age 27–28)[2]
Other namescybanakinvader[1]
OccupationGrey hat hacktivist
Known forHacking websites and computer systems[1]
Websitecyberanakinvader.wordpress.com

Cyber Anakin (also known by the handle cyberanakinvader) is the pseudonym of a computer hacktivist who named himself after Anakin Skywalker, a Star Wars character.[3][4]

History

Early history

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 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. When the Russian representatives began to deflect the blame from their own regarding the crash, causing Cyber Anakin to take revenge against Russia. For another two years after the fall of MH17, Cyber Anakin could not do anything because he "lacked knowledge". 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 vetoed by then Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin.[5][6][7][8]

In 2016, in order to retaliate against Russia and after learning 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 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 million victims.[9]

The km.ru and Nival data breaches were confirmed by computer security researcher Troy Hunt. In a subsequent interview with online news outlet VICE Motherboard, Cyber Anakin said that he had done the hacks in retaliation for the Russians causing the MH17 crash.[10][11]

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.[12]

Eventually Latvian 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 IM Andrejs Strebkovs.[5]

Activities against North Korea

In 2018, as a response to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, Cyber Anakin took advantage of an error in a North Korean 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).[13] 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.[14][15][16][17] 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.[18]

He was also involved in spreading messages via TV 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 MEP Axel Voss "has his way".[19]

Subsequent activities

In the aftermath of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shoot-down, Cyber Anakin 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.[1]

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 proposal entailing the use 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 with the purpose of enticing the Chinese government allowing Hong Kong to accede to some or all of five demands of the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests.[1][20] In the book he suggested "buying out North Korea" with a $175 billion fund to achieve re-unification of the Korean peninsula.

See also

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Batebi, Ahmad. "Interview with an Outraged, Grief Stricken Hacktivist". IranWire. Archived from the original on July 22, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  2. ^ @cybanakinvader. "Archived Twitter profile which showed his birth year". Archived from the original on August 15, 2016.
  3. ^ "Teen 'Cyber Anakin' hacker wants revenge on Russia after the MH17 crash". news.com.au. March 5, 2016. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  4. ^ ""Cyber Anakin" wants MH17 revenge". Perth Now. March 5, 2016. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "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 April 12, 2022.
  6. ^ ""Медуза"*: российские шахматистки больше десяти лет получали письма с использованными презервативами". Главные новости мира — последние события в мире сегодня | RTVI (in Russian). February 7, 2022. Archived from the original on April 17, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  7. ^ "S/2015/562". undocs.org. Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  8. ^ "S/PV.7498". undocs.org. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  9. ^ Starks, Tim. "The RSA takeaway". POLITICO. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Security News This Week: WhatsApp Is Caught in Its Own Crypto War in Brazil". Wired. March 5, 2016. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  12. ^ "Хакер Cyber Anakin: попытаюсь сорвать выборы в России". internetua.com (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on August 15, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "N Korea error promotes fake Twitter account". BBC News. April 12, 2018. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  15. ^ Lotto Persio, Sofia (April 12, 2018). "North Korea has yet to notice one of its propaganda websites links to an anti-Kim Jong Un Twitter account". Newsweek. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  16. ^ "North Korea Has yet to Notice It Got Cyber-Pranked on April Fools Day". Yahoo! News. Archived from the original on December 8, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  17. ^ McCoy, Erin L. (December 15, 2018). Cyberterrorism (First ed.). Cavendish Square. p. 7. ISBN 9781502640413.
  18. ^ "Our Nation School (The North Korean Website List)". North Korea Tech. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Iverson, Shepherd (April 16, 2019). Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-80485-182-4. Archived from the original on June 6, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2021 – via Googlebooks.
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