According to a leaked lengthy excerpt from a new book scheduled to hit shelves written by Parmy Olson, the London bureau chief for Forbes Magazine, FBI agents inside the LulzSec hackers secretly tracked and spied on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
“We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency” is an upcoming book from Parmy Olson, the London bureau chief for Forbes Magazine. And although her alleged account has not yet hit the shelves, a lengthy excerpt has been leaked to the Web — and its contents suggest that that the world’s once most powerful hacking collective was in correspondence with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he allegedly reached out to the organization for assistance. The US government says that they had already infiltrated LulzSec by then, though, meaning that WikiLeak’s plea to the hacking collective was actually being offered to an FBI mole.
According to Olson, the June 2011 attack on the public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency by LulzSec caught the attention of Assange, who was residing in the countryside manor of an English journalist while on house arrest. Once he saw that a LulzSec-led invasion had crippled CIA.gov, Assange allegedly sent out two tweets from the WikiLeaks Twitter account, only to delete the micomessages shortly after:
“WikiLeaks supporters, LulzSec, take down CIA . . . who has a task force into WikiLeaks,” read one.”CIA finally learns the real meaning of WTF” reads the other.
Assange “didn’t want to be publicly associated with what were clearly black hat hackers” writes Olson, speaking of computer compromisers who target network for perhaps no real intention other than mischief making. “Instead, he decided it was time to quietly reach out to the audacious new group that was grabbing the spotlight,” she says.
According to the book, an associate of WikiLeaks contacted LulzSec spokesman Topiary on June 16 hours after the assault on the CIA. The two would eventually converse over an Internet Relay Chat channel that was reported to be witnessed by Assange, who confirmed his identity by providing a video to the hacker in real time during their chat. For a few weeks, writes Olson, Assange and/or his associate returned to the LulzSec IRC channel “four or five more times,” during which others occasionally engaged in conversation with both sides. During at least one of those conversations, Assange’s contact at WikiLeaks offered LulzSec a spreadsheet of classified government data contained in a file named RSA 128, which she says was heavily encrypted and needed the manpower of black hat hacktivists to decode.
Olson says that one of those hackers aware the newfangled relationship was Hector Xavier Monsegur, who spearheaded LulzSec by serving as a leader of sorts under the handle Sabu. Perhaps unbeknownst to all engaged in the IRC chats, however, was that Sabu had been arrested on June 7 and, according to the federal government, began immediately working as an FBI informant.
More:
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-used-lulzsec-hackers-to-spy-on-wikileaks-assange/
Previously:
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange – The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
http://vrritti.com/2011/03/04/julian-assange-the-cypherpunk-revolutionary/
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange – A CypherPunk
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-julian-assange-a-cypherpunk/
War on the internet: the financial network behind WikiLeaks
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/07/war-on-the-internet-the-financial-network-behind-wikileaks/
WikiLeaks co-producer Rop Gonggrijp: First Hacker and Techno Anarchist of the Netherlands
http://vrritti.com/2010/12/11/wikileaks-co-producer-rop-gonggrijp-first-hacker-and-techno-anarchist-of-the-netherlands/
Another appearance of WikiLeaks Co-Producer Rop Gonggrijp on Dutch TV
http://vrritti.com/2011/01/12/another-appearance-of-wikileaks-co-producer-rop-gonggrijp-on-dutch-tv/
