But someone using the same name as the attacker already defaced more than 100 sites in little more than a month, according an informal international archive of hack incidents. The assailant struck a variety of public and private Web sites across the world, but tended to target government agency addresses, according to the German site alldas.de. Like the most recent onslaught, attacks attributed to COBR4S usually involve defacing victim sites with a brief statement on a simple text page. Besides using the above phrase, the person sprinkled in references to Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara and sometimes used expletives to refer to government agencies or Canadians. Other COBR4S-disfigured pages offered greetings to the Supreme Entity, the Silver Lords, the Prime Suspectz and other prolific hackers listed on alldas.de.
Next time be more careful.
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