Anonymous members (known as anons) can sometimes be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.Īnonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an ' anarchic', digitized ' global brain' or ' hivemind'.
