How Twitter Helped Brazil Become A Hotbed For Hacktivists
These days if you are a hardened political revolutionary, you’re just as likely to be a computer geek as someone who gets shoved around by cops at a street protest.
That’s largely thanks to the rise of Anonymous, a brand of hacktivism that has also taken Brazil by storm over the last year.
Brazil has seen an extraordinary rise in high-profile hacktivism recently, according to a new report by cyber security firm Imperva. Since May 2011, hundreds of volunteers have taken part in Anonymous cyber attacks while a few skilled hackers have taken part in data thefts under the name LulzSec Brasil. The group’s name, logo and website are a hat-tip to the Anonymous splinter group LulzSec, which went on a 50-day hacking spree last year and had members mostly from Europe and the United States.
