After focusing on the PayPal, VISA, MasterCard and Amazon websites, the members of 4chan-affiliated group Anonymous have decided to pick a new target for an unorthodox DDoS attack: fax machines belonging to corporations which they believe are against WikiLeaks’ mission.
A Dutch 16-year-old (and LOIC gunner) has been detained in the Netherlands for his connection to the pro-WikiLeaks takedowns of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal. The teen is currently undergoing interrogation by the Dutch High Tech Crime Team.
WikiLeaks’ powerful allies have declared war against Amazon.com, after already ticking PayPal, Visa and Mastercard off their lists this week. Given WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon’s servers last week, it’s not surprising the site has been thrown in the stocks.
KISS frontman Gene Simmons, besides being a rock god, is the biggest blowhard on the planet. So when he gets in an internet fight with the 4chan-affiliated internet vigilantes Anonymous… well, you end up rooting for Anonymous.
While they’re back online now, for a while there, both the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America’s websites were under DDoS attacks from piracy-lovin’ 4chan members.
Yesterday morning, Brett Winterford at ITNews revealed that broadband forums site Whirlpool was the victim of a DDoS attack that brought down the site. The site went down, then came back up before being hit by another attack today. But why?
As you may have noticed this weekend and yesterday, Gizmodo US—and all the Gawker sites—went down in flames for a couple of days. They are now back at full power, and have a pretty accurate idea of what happened.
