After making the world a better place by hunting down ISIS members, Anonymous activists have now turned their hacking skills to two websites linked to the United Nations Climate Change Summit taking place in Paris this week.
The reason behind the group's actions is a protest that did not go smoothly over the weekend, where peaceful activists, against the earth's climate change policy, were arrested and abused by French police forces.
While, under normal circumstances, peaceful protests would be allowed in any other city in the world, France has banned public gatherings (including protests) since November 13 and the ISIS attacks in Paris. For this reason, the Paris police forces intervened against the demonstrators, with force, in some cases.
Following the incident, hackers identifying themselves as part of Anonymoushave targeted the main website of the United Nations summit related to Climate Change, for the exact same reason that the peaceful protesters staged the demonstration.
According to data dumped on Cyber-Guerilla, a blog where Anonymous posts and a neighboring IRC channel, hackers have identified an SQL injection flaw in the summit website at unfccc.int.
They exploited this vulnerability to extract a database dump and then gain access to the website's CMS administration panel. The dump data is available at three simple URLs. This attack occurred yesterday, November 29th.
Today, the same group also hacked meta-fusion.com, the website of the company that provides webcast streaming services for the UN Climate Change Summit. As before, an SQL injection appears to be the cause of this attack.
The leaked data contains information such as usernames, passwords (most of which are encrypted), real names, email addresses, organizations, job titles, and security questions.
Anonymous in favor of the United Nations Climate Change Summit and this attack appears to be merely retaliation against what they perceived as unjustified police violence.
