26 May 2012

FBI Cyber Division Alert “Operation New Son”.

FYI: Below is an alert from the FBI regarding a possible Anonymous attack starting tomorrow. Feel free to pass along if useful.
Re: DDoS Attack “Operation New Son” planned for Friday, 5/25/2012

As part of our impending investigations into hacktivist groups associated with Anonymous, FBI Cyber Division has received reporting on “Operation New Son”.

Open source reports indicate that Operation New Son is being planned for Friday, May 25, 2012. This operation calls for online attacks against targeted organizations in the form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS0 attacks and the leaking of classified data. The proposed targets for Operation New Son are:

Allainz    Exxon Mobil    Public Broadcasting System
Apple    Fannie Mae    Reliance Industries Limited
Assicurazioni Generali    Glencore    Rio Tinto
AT&T    HBGary    Royal Dutch Shell
Avia    Hewlett-Packard    Saint-Gobain
AXA    IBM    Sinopec
Bank of America    Japan Post Holdings    State Grid Corp of China
Bank of China    KPMG    Tesco
BestBuy    Kroger    Toyota
Bethblog    Maersk    UniCredit
British Petroleum    MetLife    Volkswagen
Cargill    Mitsubishi    Walmart
Carrefour    Nokia    Wells Fargo
Chevron    PetroChina    
Dongfeng Motor    Posco