SourceForge said the project does not appear to be connected with Anonymous, has an intentionally misleading name and is not transparent, particularly in regards to security.

"We have therefore decided to take this download offline and suspend this project until we have more information that might lead us to think differently," SourceForge's Community Team wrote in a .

The operating system, called Anonymous-OS, is an Ubuntu Linux distribution, skinned with Anonymous logos and mottos. It is preloaded with a variety of well-known tools for attacking websites, masking and analyzing internet traffic, and communication.

Anonymous is a loose collective of online activists that has campaigned against corporate and government policies it opposes by attacking websites and stealing sensitive data. The group suffered a major setback earlier this month when it was revealed that one of its top leaders was secretly working for the FBI and facilitated evidence collection against a handful of other alleged ringleaders.

Anonymous-OS was released on a on Tuesday and since then been denounced by long-running Twitter accounts known to be affiliated with Anonymous. "AnonOps" wrote on Twitter that the distribution is fake and wrapped with Trojans, a reference that it may contain malicious software.