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Note: Hacktivist collective Anonymous gets help with attacks against Westboro Baptist Church, which pledged to picket funerals of shooting victims in Newtown, Conn.
Who Is Hacking U.S. Banks? 8 Facts (click image for larger view and for slideshow)The hacktivist collective Anonymous, hacker Cosmo The God, and the botmaster known as The Jester, have continued their press against Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), after the group said it would picket the funerals of people killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Westboro Baptist Church, an independent group that self-identifies as a church, is known for picketing the funerals of members of the armed services who have been killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, 15-year-old Cosmo The God, who's a member of Underground Nazi Hacktivist Group (UG Nazi), apparently took over the Twitter account of Fred Phelps Jr., who's the son of Westboro leader Fred Phelps Sr. The compromised Twitter page header was changed to read "Ooooooooops!" and bear the name of Cosmo. On Wednesday, multiple tweets began listing the names of the people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The hijacked Twitter account remained active until Thursday morning, at which point it was suspended by Twitter.
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Suggesting that the real Cosmo was behind the exploit, a Wednesday tweet from the hacked Twitter account was retweeted by the Cosmo The God Twitter feed, making it the first account activity there since a June 28 post announcing that "me and Josh were arrested early monday morning." Interestingly, the...