Cyber Threat Actor: Anonymous (OpGreenRights)

Anonymous is a decentralized hacktivist collective operating under multiple campaign-specific aliases, including OpGreenRights. The group conducts cyber operations primarily to advance political or social causes, targeting entities perceived as opposing their ideological stance. Their activities focus on government institutions, military infrastructure, media outlets, and critical services across diverse regions, with documented operations affecting Russia, Iran, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, and the Czech Republic. Strategic objectives center on disruption and protest rather than financial gain, employing cyber attacks to amplify dissent, retaliate against foreign policies, or support civil movements.

The collective leverages widely accessible techniques including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, website defacements, and data breaches. Notable incidents demonstrate exploitation of misconfigured Docker installations to compromise critical infrastructure, as seen in attacks disrupting Russian alcohol distribution systems. They hijack computational resources to sustain offensive campaigns and manipulate compromised platforms to disseminate political messages, exemplified by the defacement of Mashhad airport screens protesting Iran’s military activities. Operations frequently align with physical protests, such as DDoS attacks against Zimbabwean government portals during civil unrest. Anonymous affiliates like the Ukraine IT Army, Muslim Cyber Army, and World Hacker Team collaborate under shared campaigns such as #OpAfrica and #OpIndia, targeting entities including Kenya’s National Oil Corporation and India’s Goa University through credential leaks and service disruptions. The group publicly claims responsibility to maximize visibility, using hashtags to coordinate dissemination of defacement evidence and leaked data.