Anonymous is a decentralized, leaderless hacktivist collective active since at least 2008. It encompasses shifting and often unaffiliated participants operating under a shared banner rather than a single cohesive organization. Common aliases include Anonymous Collective, Anonymous Hackers, and anonymous_collective. The movement originated in internet subcultures and became associated with campaigns framed around freedom of expression, privacy, anti-censorship, government transparency, and opposition to perceived abuses by corporations, law enforcement, and political institutions. Anonymous has conducted or claimed distributed denial-of-service attacks, website defacements, network intrusions, data theft and publication, and doxxing. Prominent activity includes attacks on payment companies following their refusal to process WikiLeaks donations; operations connected to protests in Tunisia and the Occupy movement; attacks against Ku Klux Klan online infrastructure; compromise and publication of data from law-enforcement-related sites in the BlueLeaks incident; and disruptive operations against Russian and Belarusian targets following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Individual participants or Anonymous-linked actors have also targeted political organizations in the United States and Türkiye. Attribution to Anonymous is intrinsically difficult because anyone can adopt its name, campaigns vary substantially in capability and objectives, and public claims are not necessarily verifiable. LulzSec is widely regarded as a militant offshoot or closely associated group, while other operations have involved loose collaboration with independent hacktivist communities. Anonymous is primarily ideologically and politically motivated, and its operations frequently combine technical disruption with public messaging and disclosure intended to generate attention and reputational pressure.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
36 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
46 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Mentionné comme exemple historique de hacktivisme dans une discussion prospective sur la façon dont l’IA peut accroître les capacités d’acteurs peu qualifiés.
Referenced as an example of historical hacktivism in a discussion of how AI could enable a resurgence of lower-skilled, socially motivated attackers.
Referenced only as a comparison point to Phineas Fisher in discussing hacktivism notoriety.
Mentioned as an example in a discussion of hacktivism and digital resistance movements.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.