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PARIS, Feb 29, 2012, AP: Interpol said on Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. The internatinal police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.

Nicole Perlroth and John Markoff, Feb 29,2012, NYT: The unsuccessful attack on the Vatican website provides the first complete record of  the modus operandi of the secretive hackers’ collective Anonymous, report  Nicole Perlroth and John Markoff The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organisations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.

Traditionally known as F*ckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into F*ckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov. At approximately 3:10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. #UMAD?#Anonymous."   The CIA website became the latest victim in a series of attacks conducted by the elusive group of hackers against US law enforcement agencies and copyright holders.