14 DAY TRIAL // The controversial UGNazi hackers, the ones who have been known to use distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks to make their point, have created their own DDOS tool which they dubbed “The Holocaust.”
According to the hackers, Holocaust has been created in Python and C++ and it has already been put to the test against a number of websites, including hostgator.com, cia.gov, woundedwarriorproject.org, Bitcoin exchange site mtgox.com, and online payment processor wepay.com.
While some of the sites have been only disrupted for short periods of time, the one of WePay has been down for around 24 hours as a result of the attack.
In related news, UGNazi hackers have not only launched a DDOS attack on the site of the Wounded Warrior Project, but they’ve also breached it, leaking some information from its databases.
This is apparently a continuation of the personal vendetta against The Jester (th3j35t3r).
“Since this domain is registered in favor of brave Soldiers, so private infos like military ranks, their names and DOB are not disclosed. Also we will not be releasing any CC info or anything related to personal info,” the hackers said in a statement.
The hackers didn’t release the entire database, but a small sample of credential sets that allegedly belonged to administrators and users with high privileges.
Cosmo, one of the more vocal members of the group, told Softpedia that the data leak was a direct response to a tweet posted by The Jester that read “#tick......#tock.....”
This particular tweet is connected to a short post entitled “Reserved Placeholder: The Fortunate Demise of UGNazi and Co – How They Were Captured,” published on The Jester’s personal blog.
There’s no clear winner in this battle so far. On one side, th3j35t3r seems to be confident that he can bring down the hacker collective, just as he claims to have done with other groups that opposed him.
One the other hand, UGNazi seem to keep targeting the Wounded Warrior Project as a form of defiance.