Looks like it’s PayPal’s turn in this volley. After Anonymous started an anti-PayPal campaign last week in response to all the recent arrests, PayPal has come back with what they believe are the IP addresses of those responsible for last year’s DDoS attacks on their servers.
Now, this could be PayPal blowing a whole lot of smoke. It wouldn’t be hard for any hacker or script kiddie to mask his or her IP or have a remote computer execute a command. So having 1,000 IPs might mean they have 1,000 meaningless IPs for people the FBI has no real business hunting after.
But who knows. The FBI affidavit is written with support for a kid in Arlington, TX who PayPal reported to have chugged out a lot of packets during the attack. We’ll just have to see. [The Hacker News via Ubergizmo]
Geoff
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 9:27 AMTitle makes no sense. “The The” ?
Aaron
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:13 AMIt’s the the new grammar. Get on board.
Mr Jizz
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:52 AMIt’s not ‘A FBI’ it’s ‘THE FBI’
Mr Jizz
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:54 AMTherfore perfect sense.
Gives 1000 Anonymous IPs The ‘THE FBI’
It gives emphasis!
Mitchell
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM*unregisters PayPal account*
phew, that was a close one.
Mitchell
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:09 AMP.S why are these jerks trying to steal people’s money when they say they’re on a freedom crusade or something?
Harold
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 11:53 AMBecause PayPal refused to accept transactions which supported Julian Assange a few months back.
wsDK_II
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 1:37 PMThey are not trying to steal people’s money
DarthDVD
Monday, August 1, 2011 at 12:04 PMum… title should be “PayPal Fights Back, Gives 1000 Anonymous IPs *to* The FBI”.