Phineas Fisher
Phineas Fisher (also known as Phineas Phisher, Subcowmandante Marcos) is an unidentified hacktivist and self-proclaimed anarchist revolutionary who is notable for having hacked targets in the surveillance companies Hacking Team and Gamma International, the Justice and Development Party (AKP, the ruling party in Turkey) as well as the Cayman National Bank. Typically, each public attack is followed by a communique containing information about the breach, technical information in a how-to format, ASCII art, poetry and propaganda of a leftist and anarchist themes, including references to social struggles.
The name "Phineas Fisher" is a play on the name of the FinFisher malware developed by Gamma International,[1] whilst "Subcowmandante Marcos" is a word play on the former Zapatista Army of National Liberation spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos. The Cayman National Bank hack communique featured ASCII art of a cow with a pipe reminiscent of Marcos famous image and the use of the well known Zapatista slogan "Para que nos vieran, nos tapamos el rostro" (In order to be seen, we covered our faces.).[2][3]
Hacks
Gamma Group attack
In 2014, Gamma Group, most known for the FinFisher malware was hacked and a 40 Gb dump of information was released detailing Gamma's 'client lists, price lists, source code, details about the effectiveness of the FinFisher malware, user and support documentation, a list of classes/tutorials, and much more.[4] Months later Fisher released her first document of the 'HackBack!' series named 'HackBack!: DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers' which claimed responsibility for the Gamma International hack as well as detailed instructions aimed at beginners of how to repeat a similar attack to 'Inform and inspire you to go out and hack shit".[5][6]
Hacking Team attack
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Fisher in 2015 claimed to have sucsesfully breached Hacking Team, [citation needed]
Mossos D'Esquadra union attack
On May 15th, 2016, Phineas Fisher breached and leaked data from Sindicat De Mossos d'Esquadra (SME), Catalonia's police union, uploading a video to YouTube of the attack and a link to a cache of personal data of officers such as full names, addresses, bank accounts and telephone numbers for more than five thousand officers, a quarter of the total force.[7][8] The Minister of the Interior, Jordi Jané i Guasch stated that the leak "does not compromise the work or investigations of the agents, but does compromise their privacy."[9] Phineas Fisher claimed that Ciutat Morta, a Catalan documentary investigating the 4F case inspired them to commit the attack.[10]
Phineas released a thirty-nine minute video after[when?] the attack uploaded to YouTube. The video consists of the attacker probing an SME website with publicly available open-source tools before using an SQL injection to dump the data. Whilst the attacker waits they show the viewer images of people who have allegedly been victim to Police brutality at the hands of Mossos, including Yuri Jardine and Ester Quintana, a woman blinded at a 2012 Barcelona General Strike.[11] The video is set to a soundtrack themed around anti-police and overtly 'revolutionary' English and Spanish language hip-hop.[12]
Arrests
In early January 2017 the mossos in conjunction with the policía nacional raided and arrested at least four people, including a person in Salamanca, Spain and two in the Sants district of Barcelona under suspicion of the SME attack.[13][14] A few hours after the raids were reported in the Spanish press Vice Motherboard claimed that they had been in contact with an email address previously associated with Phineas who claimed to be free at the time of contact.[15]
AKP hack
Phineas claimed responsibility[when?] for breaching ... of the Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) partly in solidarity with the Kurdish movement in Rojava.
Cayman Bank hack
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2019[citation needed]
Bug Bounty
In her 2019 Cayman Bank hack communique, Hackback! Una guía DIY para robar bancos (Hackback! A DIY guide to robbing banks), Phineas offered hackers up to US$100,000 in either of the Bitcoin or Monero cryptocurrencies to carry out acts of hacktivism that lead to public disclosure of documents 'of public interest' naming it the 'Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program'.[16] In the communique Phineas states that "this program is my attempt to make it possible for good hackers to earn a living in an honest way by revealing material of public interest, instead of having to go selling their work to the cybersecurity, cybercrime or business industries.", going on to cite examples of companies to target, such as extraction industries in Latin America, Private Military Contractors including Blackwater and Halliburton and operators of private prisons such as GEO Group and CoreCivic.[2]
MilicoLeaks
In 2020, Fisher claimed to have paid US$10,000 out of her 'Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program' to an anonymous hacker who leaked over two gigabytes of emails and documents from several email accounts belonging to Chilean military personnel. The archive was named 'MilicoLeaks' by Distributed Denial of Secrets.[17] The cache of documents included over three thousand emails and one thousand documents, some related to "intelligence, finance and international relations".[18] The Chilean military confirmed the breach in an official document via twitter.[19]
Identity
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The identity of Phineas Fishers is currently unknown. Fisher has been accused of being a 'Russian Agent' by some, including long time award-wining tech journalist Joseph Menn, they strongly denied these claims siting various reasons[example needed].[20]
Politics
Phineas communiques that often follow their actions reference many anarchists and anarchist related content such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation,[citation needed] They have also done an interview with Blackbird of CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective, an anarchist media collective based mostly in the Americas.[21]
See also
- Antisec Movement - A movement opposed to the computer security industry.
- Anonymous - A loose collection of hacktivists under a shared name.
- Jeremy Hammond - A convicted anarchist hacktivist.
References
- ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2016-07-20). "Hacker 'Phineas Fisher' Speaks on Camera for the First Time—Through a Puppet". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2020-12-09. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
That's a dumb name though, just the first play on FinFisher I could think of and I haven't hacked them in a while.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcos, Subcowmandante. "Hackback! Una guía DIY para robar bancos". Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Marcos, Subcomandante (1995-03-28). "La flor prometida". El País (in español). ISSN 1134-6582. Archived from the original on 2020-12-31. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
Y miren lo que son las cosas porque, para que nos vieran, nos tapamos el rostro; para que nos nombraran, nos negamos el nombre; apostamos el presente para tener futuro; y para vivir... morimos.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Blue, Violet. "Top gov't spyware company hacked; Gamma's FinFisher leaked". ZDNet. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ↑ Fisher, Phineas (2014). "Hack Back - DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers". Gist. Retrieved 2021-03-03. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "A Notorious Hacker Is Trying to Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ↑ Catalin, Cimpanu (January 31, 2017). "Spanish Police Claim to Have Arrested Phineas Fisher - Hacking Team Hacker". BleepingComputer. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Borràs, Enric (2017-02-01). "Els Mossos arresten tres persones per la filtració de dades personals 5.540 policies". Ara.cat (in català). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ↑ "Hackeado el Twitter del Sindicat de Mossos d'Esquadra". La Vanguardia (in español). 2016-05-18. Archived from the original on 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ara (2016-05-20). ""Phineas Fisher: Ciutat morta' em va animar a fer un senzill atac als Mossos'", portada de l'ARA". Ara.cat (in català). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
"'Ciutat morta' em va animar a fer un senzill atac als Mossos".
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Carranco, Rebeca (2012-12-13). "Police chief resigns over woman who lost eye during strike demonstrations". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ↑ Cox, Joseph (2016-05-19). "A Notorious Hacker Just Released a How-To Video Targeting Police". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2021-02-16. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Borràs, Enric (2017-02-01). "Els Mossos arresten tres persones per la filtració de dades personals 5.540 policies". Ara.cat (in català). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ↑ "Spain: 4 engineers investigated over 'Phineas Fisher' hack". phys.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Notorious Hacker Phineas Fisher: I'm Alive and Well". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-23. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Phineas Fisher Offers $100,000 Bounty to Hack Banks and Oil Companies". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2020-03-26). "Phineas Fisher Says They Paid $10,000 Bounty to Person Who Hacked Chilean Military". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mostrador, El (2019-12-14). "Ejército confirma hackeo a cuentas de correo e inicia peritaje para encontrar a los responsables". El Mostrador (in español). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ↑ "Ejército de Chile - Comunicado Oficial". Twitter (in español). Dec 14, 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Vigilante Hacker 'Phineas Fisher' Denies Working for the Russian Government". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Collective, CrimethInc Ex-Workers. "CrimethInc. : HackBack! Talking with Phineas Fisher : Hacking as Direct Action against the Surveillance State". CrimethInc. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
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