A person wears a Guy Fawkes mask, a trademark and symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous ... group of international activist hackers has been linked to numerous high-profile incidents ...

The name Anonymous pops up in the media every month or so, usually after the group knocks a website offline or releases private information snatched through hack attacks on those it deems enemies.

"[Anonymous] has truly become moralfags," says Hubris, using the term for hackers who focus on political and moral causes instead of amoral pranks. "Anonymous has never been about revolutions ...

Protestors wearing Guy Fawks masks hold the logos of the international hacker group Anonymous during a demonstration against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, in Budapest, Hungary in 2012.

The hackers' collective Anonymous had a year full of headlines and trending hashtags in 2015. This was the year when the shadowy group seemed determined to make its mark by going after a target ...

At the end of May, as protests against the police killing of George Floyd got under way, reports started to circulate that the shadowy hacker group Anonymous was back. The rumors began with a ...

The hacker collective Anonymous has attacked the website of copyright collection agency BMI as part of Operation Payback, their ongoing crusade against “copywrong.” BMI have temporarily taken ...

It came from his Nest security camera. It was an anonymous Canadian "white hat" hacker warning him that the system was vulnerable. No one appreciates an unannounced visitor, especially late at night.

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