19 December 2010 Related:

http://www.wikileaks.info/press/spamhaus-false-allegations-against-wikileaks.html

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/ Wikileaks.info Warning From: Joly MacFie <joly[at]punkcast.com> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:14:25 -0500 To: nettime-l[at]kein.org Subject: Re: <nettime> Wikileaks and spam And then a comeback from Spamhaus, itself now under ddos attack.. > As many of you know, both Trend Micro and Spamhaus have published > warnings about a Wikileaks mirror site 'wikileaks.info' which is > run by the person or persons behind 'AnonOps' from an IP address of > a Russian dedicated cybercrime host (Heihachi) on which there is > nothing but malware and other cybercrime. Innocent people seeking to > read or download Wikileaks documents are being directed to the rogue > wikileaks.info server and into the hands of the crime gangs located > there. > > For trying to warn about the crime gangs located at the > wikileaks.info mirror IP, Spamhaus is now under ddos by AnonOps. The > criminals there do not like our free speech at all. > > As our site can't be reached now, you can not read our article > on this, and we can not continue to warn Wikileaks users not to > load things from the Heihachi IP. If you know journalists who would > get this message out to Wikileaks users, please forward this > message (entire) to them. The anonymous folks at AnonOps did not like our article update, here's what we said and what brought the ddos on us: ---- In a statement released today on wikileaks.info entitled "Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info", the person running the wikileaks.info site (which is not connected with Julian Assange or the real Wikileaks organization) called Spamhaus's information on his infamous cybercrime host "false" and "none of our business" and called on people to contact Spamhaus and "voice your opinion". Consequently Spamhaus has now received a number of emails some asking if we "want to be next", some telling us to stop blacklisting Wikileaks (obviously they don't understand that we never did) and others claiming we are "a pawn of US Government Agencies". None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - the very site we are warning about. The site data, disks, connections and visitor traffic, are all under the control of the Heihachi cybercrime gang. There are more than 40 criminal-run sites operating on the same IP address as wikileaks.info, including carder-elite.biz,h4ck3rz.biz, elite-crew.net, and bank phishes paypal-securitycenter.com and postbank-kontodirekt.com. Because they are using a Wikileaks logo, many people thought that the "press release" was issued "by Wikileaks". In fact there has been no press release about this by Wikileaks and none of the official Wikileaks mirrors sites even recognise thewikileaks.info mirror. We wonder how long it will be before Wikileaks supporters wake up and start to question whywikileaks.info is not on the list of real Wikileaks mirrors at <a href=" http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html">wikileaks.ch</a>. Currently wikileaks.info is serving highly sensitive leaked documents to the world, from a server fully controlled by Russian malware cybercriminals, to an audience that faithfully believes anything with a 'Wikileaks' logo on it. Spamhaus continues to warn Wikileaks readers to make sure they are viewing and downloading documents only from an official Wikileaks mirror site. We're not saying "don't go to Wikileaks" we're saying "Use the wikileaks.ch server instead". ---- Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org Meanwhile http://wikileaks.org does indeed resolve to http://mirror.wikileaks.info <http://mirror.wikileaks.info>j -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org --------------------------------------------------------------- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime[at]kein.org Cryptome: As others have noted, any of the Wikileaks mirrors can be used to siphon data of their IPs, operators and users, as can Wikileaks itself, as can maillists, IMs, chats, TOR .gov, .mil, .com, .edu, .org, and the rest of the insecure-by-design Internet. Beyond that, network equipment manufacturers, security producers, operators and admins can access anything under guise of security and administration -- the Internet's true authoritatives responsible only to themselves, and their profits, cloaked by high-minded claims of public service. This continues the long-running practice of analogue communications -- messengers, couriers, mail, publishers -- and electronic telecommunications providers. Man-in-the-middle, panopticon. Mea culpa. Cryptome mirrors, too.