NASA's Mars Curiosity rover may be Anonymous's next target

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover could be the next target by the notorious hacking group, Anonymous, it has emerged.

Anonymous reportedly shot to fame when it brought down numerous websites, including Visa and several US Government sites, as a protest against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's arrest.

According to the Daily Mail, the latest images from Curiosity show it on the surface of the red planet. It is now feared hackers could be planning to target the communication signals from the red planet and hijack the rover.

A New York security firm claims to have spotted a message on an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) asking for hep to hack into the signals Nasa uses to communicate with the Curiosity rover.

Flashpoint Partners spotted a message by user "MarsCuriosity" on the AnonOps IRC channel, which is one of the Anonymous-related IRC channels that it monitors.