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Anonymous vowed Monday to step up attacks on contractor Monsanto Comp. (MON). 

Monsanto is a firm with a long and controversial history.  It is accused of abusing intellectual property rights to sue small farms (allowing its patented crops to blow seeds onto their properties, then suing them); trying to bribe officials in Canada and Indonesia [1][2]; and suing dairy farmers who advertise that their milk doesn’t contain growth hormones.  And they also were the company responsible for spraying Agent Orange all over soldiers in Vietnam, which is thought to have led to cancer and other ailments.

Anonymous broke the news of new possible attacks, writing:

 @MonsatoCo is now suing small dairy farmers for advertising that they use no growth hormones.  For NOT using their product.

 The operation’s Twitter account “OpMonsanto”, posted on June 26:

 We’re going to hit @MonsantoCo with something a little bit more serious than a DDoS this time around. **** ’em. #ExpectUs

 It posted a brief press release, writing:

 Over the last 2 months we have pushed the exposure of hundreds of pages of articles detailing Monsanto’s corrupt, unethical, and downright evil business practices. We’ve created a nice go-to reference guide on piratepad/anonpad(anonpad.org/opmonsanto, backed up elsewhere), where anyone can read up on and add their own info about MonsantoCo.

 We blasted their web infrastructure to shit for 2 days straight, crippling all 3 of their mail servers as well as taking down their main websites world-wide. We dropped dox on 2500+ employees and associates, including full names, addresses, phone numbers, and exactly where they work. We are also in the process of setting up a wiki, to try and get all collected information in a more centralized and stable environment. Not bad for 2 months, I’d say.

 What’s next? Not sure… it might have something to do with that open 6666 IRC port on their nexus server though ;)

 Expect Us