Few days ago, i have reported a fake Anonymous-OS live project registered on SourceForge. The project was claimed to be based on the Ubuntu OS and the MATE desktop environment. It’s creator were claimed to be the part of famous Anonymous group.
But Anonymous refused to take the responsibility of this OS and tweeted,”Anonymous OS can’t be trusted please think before you use it. We’re NOT vouching for it.”
After this tweet, Sourceforge has decided to close the project as the name and source of the project is misleading.
“We looked at the project, and decided that although the name of the project was misleading (we see no evidence that it is connected with Anonymous) it appeared, on initial glance, to be a security-related operating system, with, perhaps, an attack-oriented emphasis,” Sourceforge announced.
“However, as the day progressed, various security experts have had a chance to take a look at what’s really in this distribution, and verify that it is indeed a security risk, and not merely a distribution of security-related utilities, as the project page implies.” – said SourceForge in a response to the Anonymous-OS project.
“We have therefore decided to take this download offline and suspend this project until we have more information that might lead us to think differently. We’ll be in touch with the project admin, and let you know if and when we find out anything to contrary, but for now, that’s what we’re doing,” said SourceForge.
The project is now offline and no longer available on the internet. This is a wise step taken by SourceForge.
