Vulture

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**VU17Ur3** (leet speak for **Vulture**) is a UK-based hacker circle.

## Overview

Considered the European counterpart of Crescent Genesis, VU17Ur3 is the second largest hacker group in the world, second only to Crescent Genesis. It seeks to wage war against injustices worldwide by using cyberwarfare to combat corruption and expose dirty secrets of various organizations in a "war for truth."

According to audio logs and journal entries, Vulture members are never referred to by their real names online, and instead go by codenames.

VU17Ur3 seeks to accumulate followers and grow their ranks through acts of cyber-warfare that expose corrupt deeds to the public and bring the truth behind various global events to the people.

VU17Ur3 members are known to be pro-life extremists who believe that abortion is almost never justified, even in situations where the women may die during childbirth (they make an exception for cases where the baby will die during childbirth). Their central stance is that when it comes to saving the mother or the baby, the mother's life is always forfeit and that sacrificing one's life for their child is the "most feminine thing a woman can do."

## Hideouts

Just like Crescent Genesis, VU17Ur3 has an intricate network of safehouses across Europe. Its main HQ, known as the Zephyr Sanctuary, is located in London, United Kingdom. Vulture also has a smaller network of safehouses in the United States of America. Interestingly, the countries with the most hideouts happen to be Greece, Russia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

## Notable members

* Jessica Schiffer
* Aaltsje Hasselbaink
* Gretel Aigner
* Ernest Quint
* Lydie Barnier
* Emmerich Grundmann
* Harry Strassmann
* Marius Ehrenfeld
* Simone Bumgarner
* Anke Vogel
* Lucas Renou
* Dimitri Delaunay
* Pierre Saunier
* Julienne Gabriaux
* Zina Kuznetsova (**Зина Кузнецова**)
* Petya Malenkov (**Петя Маленков**)
* Borya Mikoyan (**Боря Микоян**)
* Misha Mishajashvili (**Миша Мишаджашвили**)
* Alyosha Murzaev (**Алёша Мурзаев**)
* Yuri Nikitin (**Юрий Никитин**)
* Konstantin Petrov (**Константин Петров**)
* Aleksandr Rykov (**Александр Рыков**)
* Boris Ryzhkov (**Борис Рыжков**)
* Vladimir Sabgaida (**Владимир Сабгайда**)
* Volodya Sarayev (**Володя Сараев**)
* Sasha Semenov (**Саша Семенов**)
* Borya Shapovalov (**Боря Шаповалов**)
* Sergei Shkuratov (**Сергей Шкуратов**)
* Kolya Shvernik (**Коля Шверник**)
* Oleg Stepanoshvili (**Олег Степаношвили**)
* Ivan Afanasyev (**Иван Афанасьев**)
* Volodya Andropov (**Володя Андропов**)
* Petya Avagimov (**Петя Авагимов**)
* Dimitri Bondarenko (**Дмитрий Бондаренко**)
* Vladimir Brezhnev (**Владимир Брежнев**)
* Vladimir Brezhov (**Владимир Брежов**)
* Pyotr Bulganin (**Пётр Булганин**)
* Vanya Chernogolov (**Ваня Черноголов**)
* Dima Chernyshenko (**Дима Чернышенко**)
* Pyotr Demchenko (**Пётр Демченко**)
* Vanya Gerasimov (**Ваня Герасимов**)
* Kostya Golubev (**Костя Голубев**)
* Kostya Gridin (**Костя Гридин**)
* Yakov Gushenko (**Яков Гушенко**)
* Sasha Ivanov (**Саша Иванов**)
* Anatoly Ivashenko (**Анатолий Ивашенко**)
* Yuri Kiselev (**Юрий Киселев**)
* Oleg Kosygin (**Олег Косыгин**)
* Viktor Kuznetsov (**Виктор Кузнецов**)
* Konstantin Lebedev (**Константин Лебедев**)
* Ivan Lukin (**Иван Лукин**)

## Confirmed deeds

This is a list of events that have been attributed to or have been directly caused by VU17Ur3.

### Attacks

* 2016-On May Day, 2016, VU17Ur3 defaces the official website of Planned Parenthood in the United States of America, replacing it with "anti-abortion propaganda" aimed at shaming women.
* 2016-In a joint operation with Crescent Genesis, VU17Ur3 launches a DDOS attack on the website Pornhub, causing it to go offline for six weeks. This is followed by a YouTube video accusing Pornhub of protecting human traffickers and child predators.
* 2016-VU17Ur3 claims responsibility for a DDOS attack on NARAL Pro-Choice America's website.
* 2016-VU17Ur3 launches a DDOS attack on Atlas Biomedical.
* 2017-VU17Ur3 hijacks NPR and continually broadcasts anti-abortion messages over the course of six months.
* 2019-VU17Ur3 attempts to warn the world of a possible illegal biological experiment conducted by Atlas Biomedical involving "weaponized insects", but their warnings are dismissed by the international community, with disastrous consequences.
* 2020-Together with Crescent Genesis, VU17Ur3 breaks into the US government's archives, obtains all footage of the 2019 Arcadia Outbreak, and posts it online for the whole world to see.

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