Anonymous Hits Mexican Websites to Protest Kidnapping of 43 Students Fruzsina Eordogh - Christian Science Monitor
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Anonymous: Operation Sky Angels (TheAnonMessengers)

Anonymous attacked and took down several Mexican government websites Thursday night, an online assault the hacktivist collective said was meant to protest the government's handling of the recent mass abduction of 43 students.

While smaller scale attacks have been going on for three weeks, the so-called #opMexico culminated Thursday evening in a wave of assaults on government and academic sites. The operation took down several websites and defaced others. Some sites hit in the attack were redirected to a webpage featuring an Anonymous logo, a poem, and a video titled “Anonymous: Operation Sky Angels” (watch above) that outlines their motive for the attack.

In the video, the hacker group chides the government for failing to deliver justice and accused it of being “deeply implicated in the violence it claims to oppose.” After calling the government “abusive” and shrouded in a “veil of corruption,” the trademark Anonymous robotic voice vows to “avenge” the students and make the government “pay for their crimes.”

Anonymous said they will do this by dismantling “governmental-affiliated cyber infrastructure.”

The operation isn't the first time the loosely affiliated network has staged this kind of digital disruption in Mexico. In 2011, Anonymous Mexico attempted an online take-down of the drug cartel Zetas. Later, it attacked bus and tourism websites for failing to ensure the safety of their passengers in what they called Operation Safe Roads.

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