Thread: Wikileaks opponents face DDoS attacks

a new Cyber battle begins, it's the Rebels against the Evil Empire and the clones

4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline
Peter Bright



The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan's hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance, and other sites that have hindered the whistleblowing site's operations.

A self-styled spokesman for the group calling himself "Coldblood" has said that any website that's "bowing down to government pressure" is a target. PayPal ceased processing donations to the site, and PostFinance froze WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's account. The attacks are being performed under the Operation: Payback banner; Operation: Payback is the name the group is using in its long-running attacks on the RIAA, MPAA, and other organizations involved with anti-piracy lawsuits.

The initial attacks against PayPal were substantially ineffective; the PayPal blog was taken offline, but the main PayPal site wasn't harmed. The attacks against PostFinance, however, have resulted in the bank's website being unavailable for more than 16 hours. It remains unavailable at the time of writing. The latest target is the site of the Swedish prosecutors in Assange's sexual misconduct trial. This too appears to be offline. Twitter has also been named as a future attack target, due to its claimed censorship of the #wikileaks hashtag.

The companies being attacked deny that their behavior is a result of government influence. Rather, they are claiming that WikiLeaks and Assange have failed to adhere to the terms of use of various services. Amazon, which for a time hosted the site, said that WikiLeaks was failing to ensure that it "wasn't putting innocent people in jeopardy." PostFinance said that Assange lied on an application form.

In a case of tit-for-tat, unknown forces have since launched a denial of service attack against Anonymous' own site (one that took it offline shortly after publication), though the IRC channel used for coordination is still operational, and its denial-of-service software, LOIC, is still functioning properly.

WikiLeaks was itself the target of massive denial of service attacks in the wake of its release of thousands of US embassy cables. The source of these attacks remains unknown. In addition to making the main WikiLeaks site hard to access, DoS attacks against DNS provider EveryDNS resulted in the company cutting WikiLeaks off, as it was unwilling to tolerate the excess traffic.

In spite of this, hundreds of mirrors of the site have popped up across the globe, with Anonymous claiming to have created many of them. An "insurance file"—an encrypted torrent of the entire cable dump—has been widely distributed, along with the promise that the decryption key will be published should anything bad happen to WikiLeaks.

Assange himself is currently remanded in custody in the UK. Swedish prosecutors are seeking to have him extradited to face sexual misconduct charges. He surrendered to police in London and was arrested. Bail was refused over fears that he might flee, and also due to some fear that he was at risk from "unstable persons." With widespread calls for his murder, this might not be too far-fetched.

arstechnica.com

Good you guys enjoy it cause you are also the ones that ultimately will be paying for the party

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Good you guys enjoy it cause you are also the ones that ultimately will be paying for the party

Originally Posted by Mid

4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline

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Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by larvidchr

Good you guys enjoy it cause you are also the ones that ultimately will be paying for the party

Prove me wrong butterbutt

predicting the end of the internet lars ?

Originally Posted by Mid

predicting the end of the internet lars ?

Naa it's all good I can afford it, but some changes will come of this and not in line of more freedom on the net I'm afraid, but more like more Government control measures paid by us through our tax, and companies strengthening their systems with more security paid again by us the costumers.

But it's great entertainment on an otherwise quiet day

4Chan Takes Down Mastercard Site In Support Of WikiLeaks
Alexia Tsotsis



In retaliation for refusing to let Mastercard customers donate to Wikileaks, 4Chan has successfully taken down the website of Mastercard.com with orchestrated DDOS attacks.

The 4Chan and Anonymous-backed Operation Payback has also lead efforts against the RIAA and you can find a direct link to more details on how 4Chan is organizing their WikiLeaks and Julian Assange support efforts here.

Attacks have also hit Paypal and Swiss bank PostFinance and other sites which have refused service to Assange. EveryDNS.net as well as Amazon are also possible targets.

Assange himself was arrested in London yesterday under allegations of sexual mis-conduct. It remains to be seen how the WikiLeaks saga will play out, but it is very obvious that the entire Internet will be the battleground.

techcrunch.com

Originally Posted by larvidchr

but more like more Government control measures paid by us through our tax,

err lars , they don't , and due to the nature of the beast wont , work