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'Gay furry hackers' claim second NATO cyber-break-in (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of "gay furry hackers," usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.

"The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!," the crew wrote, bragging: "NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2."

The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance's the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

OwO *notices your info*

Joking aside, I'm seriously questioning whether they're actually furries. On the one hand, a lot of furries are pissed off at the US due to lack of affordable healthcare, the ongoing war against LGBT rights, etc. On the other hand, most furries support NATO to some extent, even if it's just because the alternative is Russia/China/Middle East, etc who are known for being even worse about civil right.

Then again, we have a group we've had a small right-wing extremist group we keep having to boot out of cons, meetups, etc, so I guess it's possible. I'm just thinking it might be a false flag by Russia or a Russia-aligned group to try and sow division between the furry community and other communities we tend to be closely aligned with (like the LGBT community), or an attempt to get the furry community marked as an extremist organization (kinda like how juggalos are apparently considered an organized crime group by the FBI).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the odds of them all being gay and all being furries and all being exceptional hackers is quite unlikely. It almost implies they'd deny a good asset of helping/joining if it were straight and vanilla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not as unlikely as you might think given that 80%+ of the fandom is queer and most are techy, and furries tend to clump together in communities. I do think it's a bit of a bizarre target to claim a fandom affiliation for though, since their opinions are not representative of the fandom by a long shot.

It seems to me like it might be a smokescreen to hide their identity and motives. It could also be to redirect retaliation towards a group they don't like, but mostly it just makes the fandom look badass so I don't think that would be a very good plan. My gut feeling is that it probably is genuine, but there are reasons to be skeptical.