Could a group of Thai hackers, modeled on a famed Chinese hacking group, have been the actual masterminds of last weeks spam-bomb denial-of-service attacks?
WorldNetDaily thinks it's not just possible but probable. The online investigative journalism site says the group is not just a satellite of the infamous Hong Kong Blondes, but warned WND in December that they were going after at least CNN and at most any and every online company doing business in mainland China, to protest Communist persecution of Chinese.
This is farther than even the FBI has reportedly gone when it comes to isolating the likely culprit(s) behind the Net attacks. Wired cites "security experts" as saying the FBI has a suspect all but identified, while a Stanford University software system developer says the suspect is believed to be living in the U.S. and is not "mafiaboy," the hacker who caught the eye of the Feds early when he apparently bragged about it in Internet Relay Chat rooms.
But have the Feds got the one(s), even given the proclivity of hacker associations in online chats? Not everyone agrees. According to WND, the Thai group may have the better of the claims, based on recent events in or through the Far East.
For one, they claim they launched the DOS attacks from inside the FBI's own computers, had help from Mainland Chinese and German hackers. The attacks froze CNN, Yahoo, Amazon.com, eBay, and other major sites over four days.
Most significant, WND says, was the hack against the California-based RealNames credit company. It originated from China in the same week as the big sites were jammed, with RealNames itself reporting 60,000 files being re-routed to a Chinese Web location. And a member of the Thai satellite hacker group says they were the ones who hacked RealNames.
"We hacked RealNames looking for credit card numbers of international bigwigs," hacker Maxi Coke, a Thai based in Bangkok, tells WND. "It's just like we told WorldNetDaily (in December). This is real. We are not going away."
Members of the group say they're not connected officially to the Hong Kong Blondes but they followed the lead of the group's legendary leader, Blondie Wong. And the group pledges more attacks in the future, though they've yet to name targets, ways, or cooperating groups, if any, WND says.
Maxi Coke reiterated the group had targeted CNN mastermind Ted Turner even before the Time Warner/America Online merger, "and we did take down CNN. The globalist elites have to get the message. We will never, never ever stop fighting them. Our movement will not be co-opted. Red China and all the Western corporations should beware."
In December, WorldNet Daily reported on the Chinese Hong Kong Blondes, created by superhacking legend Blondie Wong, and added a Thai satellite group had emerged, threatening the Western sites as well as Beijing. WND says the group's aim was to stop Communist China persecuting its own citizens, and to stop Western transnational companies from dealing with the Communist Chinese.
The Thai satellite group calls itself the Julie Holden Drool Brigade, in honor of a mentor who was once a British intelligence agent and resembles the actress. People will say we need anger management training, or that we need government-sponsored Web sites designed just so we can hack them for fun, but we're really serious," says Thai hacker Mini Jet to WND.
Maxi Coke says other hackers in Mainland China and in Germany helped them with the DOS attacks. "We launched the attack from inside the FBI's own computers. We called it the 'Janet Reno Dance Party.' We didn't want her to have to go too far to find the source of the attack. When she looks too hard, peaceful law abiding citizens tend to get burned up from time to time - like in Waco, Texas."
The Holden group wants the West to quit trading with Communist China, but they've also made some other demands - like putting the United Nations on trial over its stance promoting abortion, and exposing and examining drug money laundering.
"Trade, drugs and abortion -- these are the main evils in the world," Mini Jet tells WND. "The elites are a selfish, self-anointed group of snobs. The Chinese, Russians, U.N, Western corporations, they all are raping the planet with impunity. Since they are what I would call 'evil,' and their view of the world and mankind's nature is all wrong -- they can only lead us all into a future of anarchy and destruction," said Mini Jet.
The group tells WND the Chinese government fears the Internet's ability to spread "the message of freedom." Indeed, earlier this week, the Chinese government arrested and jailed four founders of a Chinese magazine using the Net to promote social, cultural and religious freedom. WND says the four will be charged with subversion.
"We're in a war," Maxi Coke tells WND. "A war means there will be POWs. Prisoners of a spiritual war or battle if you will. And, of course, there are martyrs in any war. Unfortunately, we see so many people in the developing world are martyrs to false gods of drugs, consumerism and the culture of death."
