New World Hackers
Attribution profile
- Type
- Activist
- Location
- United States of America
- Known incidents
- 11 incidents
- Sources
- 5 sources
- First seen
- 2016-02-14
- Last seen
- 2017-08-12
- Updated
- 2026-10-17 10:21
- Aliases
- 2 aliases
STIX characteristics
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Profile narrative
New World Hackers (NWH), also known as NWH, is a hacktivist group affiliated with Anonymous and based in the United States. The group has conducted distributed denial‑of‑service attacks using its BangStresser tool against targets such as the Michael Phelps celebrity website, the Xbox Live service, and municipal sites in Denver and Salt Lake City, aiming to disrupt services and highlight perceived security weaknesses. In addition to disruption, NWH has breached websites to exfiltrate data, exemplified by the leak of student, alumni and administrative credentials from a South African university after exploiting Local File Inclusion and SQL injection vulnerabilities, with the stolen data hosted on Mega.nz and paste sites. The group’s actions are framed as protests against police shootings, government complicity, or perceived injustices, and it has claimed affiliation with Anonymous campaigns such as #OpDomesticTerrorism and #OpAfrica. No state sponsorship or criminal consortium is indicated in the source material.
Incidents
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11 incidentsSources
Sources available to members: 5 sources.