These are not kids surfing the net for pass words.
The dirty little secret is that Anonymous hackers work for ISP’s and search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc. They are rogue employees that can communicate with each other, off the ISP grid.
The internet is like water flowing through a network of pipes. These hackers are the ones that fix the pipes and know where the backup and side routes are that are used for overflow.
About 3 years ago researchers decompiled a trojan code to discover how it communicates with Command & Control (C&C) servers on the internet. They found that the Torpig botnet deployed a domain flux approach: the botnet operators constantly move the domains of the C&C servers and never use their own computers.
Those botnet operations are what the Anonymous hackers latched onto and organized themselves not to make money, but for political purposes.
As soon as an Anonymous hacker is spotted, the hacker can immediately see the attacker also and either disappear, or attack the attacker’s computer.
Our counter-hackers have a great difficulty armoring themselves to do battle in this cyber-world.
Thanks gandalftb.
“These are not kids surfing the net for pass words.”
I agree.