Dallas
– The FBI arrested a former spokesman for the hacktivist group
Anonymous for making threats against an agent.
Barrett
Brown posted a rambling, obscenity-laced YouTube video in which he
allegedly threatened FBI Special Agent Robert Smith over his
questioning his mother about laptop computers and other materials he
hid at her house. It is one of three such announcements Mr. Brown
posted over the past few days.
In the video statement, Mr. Brown prefaces his remarks by admitting that he was once addicted to heroin.
In the video statement, Mr. Brown prefaces his remarks by admitting that he was once addicted to heroin.
Federal
agents confiscated Mr. Brown's computer in a search of his home in
March.
Thehacker group has carried out several cyber attacks on government andfinancial services websites in retaliation for actions carried outagainst Wikileaks, which has liberated and published millions of classified government cables and documents on the internet.(click here for a previous report)
The group recently published the credit card and phone numbers of 13 government employees on the hackers' site "Pastebin." (click here)
The group recently published the credit card and phone numbers of 13 government employees on the hackers' site "Pastebin." (click here)
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