Monday, October 31, 2011

'Hackers' Bluster Drug Cartel

An internet video - that claims to be related to the Anonymous hacking transformation - has in jeopardy to display sum about a Mexican drug cartel.

The YouTube summary mentioned it was "tired of the crook organisation the Zetas, that is dedicated to kidnapping, hidden and extortion".

It mentioned the conglomeration "made a great mistake" carrying out an kidnapping of a of their members in Veracruz.

Local law authorities mentioned they cannot verify the video.

The summary shows a person ready to go in a Guy Fawkes facade associated with Anonymous and other romantic groups.

The voiceover, that is in Spanish, claims to know about military officers, journalists, cab drivers and others who assist the cartel.

It mentioned it will tell photographs and other sum unless the kidnapped associate of its organisation - who has not been identified - is released.

"We cannot urge ourselves with weapons, but you can with their cars, houses and bars," the summary added.

"It's not difficult. We know who they are and where they are."

The video was posted beneath the username MrAnonymousguyfawkes. It was uploaded on 6 October, but was initial reported at the finish of final week by the universal comprehension regard container Stratfor.

An endeavor to meeting the video's writer did not take a reply.

Analysts at Stratfor mentioned that if Anonymous carried out its threat, it would expected lead to the kill in cold blood of the declared as conglomeration partners by opponent gangs. It mentioned there could moreover be repartee attacks against suspected hackers.

Veracruz is about 260 miles (420km) easterly of Mexico city, on the Gulf of Mexico.

Over new months local authorities have reported a way up in drug-related crime. They mentioned rivals of the Zetas conglomeration were severe it for manage of the area.

Drugs gangs have been related to the killings of other campaigners who used the internet to malign the cartels' activities.

In September the bodies of a human and lady were found unresolved from a overpass in the northern town of Nuevo Laredo.

Attached signs read: "This is going to come about to all of the posting humorous things on the internet" and listed the names of two blogs.

"The internet offers a space for people to dare the cartels with a few anonymity," mentioned Robert Munks, a Latin America consultant at the counterclaim analysts IHS Jane's.

"But the cartels have unusually great attain and can unmask a few of these internet posters, and as we've seen the effect may be flattering dire. I regard there will be serve postings, and I regret, serve deaths."

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