Hacktivist group Anonymous on Friday posted online more leaked files from UK-based hybrid warfare project Integrity Initiative and the shady firm financing it, called the Institute for Statecraft.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2018) Hacktivist group Anonymous on Friday posted online more leaked files from UK-based hybrid warfare project Integrity Initiative and the shady firm financing it, called the Institute for Statecraft.The hackers blew the lid off a covert operation last month run by the British intelligence from London to "counter Russian disinformation" and "educate national audiences" overseas.
The operation is funded by the Institute for Statecraft, a "company that very few knew about up until recently," the hacktivist collective said in a statement on its website, cyberguerrilla.org.
The Institute's official web page provides no address or contacts, while its program has not been updated since last year. The source code of online publications suggests automated uploads, hackers said.
The private details of the Institute's Director Christopher Donnelly were also leaked. He was identified as a special adviser on the House of Commons Defense Committee.
Donnelly triggered a probe in parliament into the Russian threat and lobbied for Integrity Initiative members and Institute staffers to be called as witnesses, Anonymous said.
He also lobbied for an inquiry into Russia's alleged meddling in the Catalan independence referendum by the House Digital Committee and invited two Integrity Initiative members in Spain, on the Foreign Office's payroll, to testify in parliament.
Separately, the hackers revealed a list of measures that Donnelly suggested in March 2014 Ukraine should have taken in response to Crimea's return to Russia.
These included mining the Sevastopol bay, setting up a "cordon sanitaire" of troops and mines on the coast north of the Black Sea peninsula, and rolling out a "big microwave anti-satellite weapon" that he claimed Ukraine might still have.
In conclusion, the hackers warned they would return with more revelations, Names and facts, depending on how seriously the United Kingdom and the European Union took their intentions, after accusing their leaders of inertia.
