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‘Anonymous’ newspaper hack puts Singapore on alert
Anonymous YouTube message threatens to cause Singapore "financial loss by aggressive cyber intrusion" if demands are not met
An Anonymous spokesperson threatening to "go to war" with the Singapore government over recent internet licensing rules in a YouTube message posted online. Photo: AFP
Activist group Anonymous hacked a Singapore newspaper website on Friday and threatened wider cyberattacks over internet freedom, with government agencies reportedly on alert after the group said it would “wage war” with the city-state.
The website of the pro-government Straits Times was hacked early in the day by apparent members of the group, which is opposing recently introduced licensing rules for news websites in Singapore.
The attackers, using the name “Messiah”, took over the blog of a Straits Times journalist, saying she had distorted “our words and intentions” in a report on the group’s threat a day earlier to “wage war” on the Singapore government to protest internet curbs.
“We oppose any form of internet censorship among other things,” said a post on the journalist’s hacked blog, which has been taken offline.
The hackers urged the journalist to apologise within 48 hours “to the citizens of Singapore for trying to mislead them”.
If she fails to apologise, “then we expect her resignation”, the hacker added.
“If those demands are met we will be on our way. But in the event our demands are not met in the next 48 hours, we will place you in our ‘to do’ list and next time you wont [sic] be let off this easy.”
Asian media giant Singapore Press Holdings, which publishes the newspaper, said: “We have made a police report, and the police are investigating.”
The attack on the Straits Times followed a post on the video-sharing site YouTube on Thursday in which a person claiming to speak for Anonymous warned it will attack Singapore’s financial infrastructure if it does not rescind the new rules.
“We demand you reconsider the regulations of your framework or we will be forced to go to war with you,” a male voice said as a person hiding behind a mask appeared in the YouTube clip, addressing the government.
“Every time you deprive a citizen his right to information, we will cause you financial loss by aggressive cyber intrusion,” said the speaker.
Reacting to the YouTube clip, Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority said: “We are aware of the video, and the police are investigating into the matter.”
The Straits Times, meanwhile, said it had learned that government agencies have been put on alert following the warning.
It said the alert directive came from the Government IT Security Incident Response Team, which was set up to co-ordinate responses to a cyberattack.
Blogs and social media have gained popularity as alternative sources of news and opinion in Singapore, where mainstream newspapers and broadcasters are perceived to be pro-government.
Singapore authorities have said the new rules provide clarity on existing standards for internet content, and do not impinge on internet freedom.
Singapore News Site Hacked After ‘Anonymous’ Warns of Attacks
<cite class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; width: 640px; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); display: block; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; position: static !important; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">By Shamim Adam - Nov 1, 2013 11:47 AM GMT+0800</cite> A group called Anonymous hacked a website owned by Singapore’s biggest newspaper publisher, having warned earlier it will mount cyber attacks on the government over its online media licensing framework.
A hacker in the group that goes by the name the Messiah posted on Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. (SPH)’s Straits Times website, saying the newspaper distorted its words by writing that Anonymous is at war with Singapore instead of the government. A video uploaded on the YouTube website this week showed a person in a Guy Fawkes mask demanding Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s government reconsider its Internet regulations.
Singapore from June 1 required websites that regularly publish news on the city state to be licensed and pay a S$50,000 ($40,200) bond, to be forfeited on the publication of “prohibited content” that “undermines racial or religious harmony.” Yahoo! Inc.’s Singapore news website was among an initial list of 10 that was subject to the rules, which the government said would mean news sites are regulated in the same manner as other media.
“We demand you reconsider the regulations of your framework or we will be forced to go to war with you,” according to a computer-generated voice on the YouTube video. “For every time you deprive a citizen his right to information, we will cost you financial loss by aggressive cyber intrusion.”
Singapore’s government agencies were put on alert, the Straits Times reported today. The group’s the Messiah also claimed responsibility for hacking the website of the Ang Mo Kio Town Council this week, the municipal body of Lee’s constituency.
Singapore Press Holdings has taken affected blogs off the Straits Times website after a section of the site was hacked earlier today, the company said in an e-mailed statement. A police report had been made, the company said.
Anonymous has sent similar YouTube messages to governments including the Philippines and the U.K.
To contact the reporter on this story: Shamim Adam in Singapore at [email protected] To contact the editors responsible for this story: Rosalind Mathieson [email protected]; Stephanie Phang at [email protected]
