[6][7] The exploit was subsequently patched by SonicWall before it was made public by security researcher and ex LulzSec member Darren 'Pwnsauce' Martyn who claimed "if you use these products is to unplug them, douse them in kerosene, and set them on fire.

The video consists of the attacker probing an SME website with publicly available open-source tools before using an SQL injection to dump the data.

Whilst the attacker waits they show the viewer images of people who have allegedly been victim to police brutality at the hands of Mossos, a woman blinded at the 2012 Barcelona General Strike.

[16] In early January 2017 the mossos in conjunction with the Policía Nacional raided and arrested at least four people, including a person in Salamanca, Spain and two in the Sants district of Barcelona under suspicion of the SME attack.

[19] In 2016, Fisher claimed responsibility for breaching networks belonging to the Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and stealing hundreds of thousands of emails and other files In solidarity with the Kurdish movement in Rojava and Bakur.

[11][20][21][29] In November 2019, DDoSecrets published over 2 terabytes of data from the Cayman Island National Bank and Trust, dubbed the Sherwood files.

A DIY guide to robbing banks), Fisher offered hackers up to US$100,000 in either of the Bitcoin or Monero cryptocurrencies to carry out acts of hacktivism that lead to public disclosure of documents, naming it the "Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program".

[34] In the communique, Fisher states that "this program is my attempt to make it possible for good hackers to earn a living in an honest way by revealing material of public interest, instead of having to go selling their work to the cybersecurity, cybercrime or business industries", going on to cite examples of companies to target such as extraction industries in Latin America, Private Military Contractors including Blackwater and Halliburton and operators of private prisons such as GEO Group and CoreCivic.

Fisher has been accused of being a Russian agent by tech journalist Joseph Menn in his book Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World.

"[41] Fisher has issued communiques which reference Anarchism and anarchist related content such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation as well as labeling herself an 'anarchist-revolutionary'.