14 DAY TRIAL // As they promised, hacktivists launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on the site of the UK Supreme Court at the end of last week. Another target of the same operation was the website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“#TANGODOWN for those who have just joined us supremecourt.gov.uk & cia.gov,” the hackers wrote.
TechWeek Europe reports that both sites were forced offline as a result of the attacks.
The reasons behind the attack on the CIA’s site is obvious, the agency being a target on numerous occasions when Anonymous protests against the US government and law enforcement.
On the other hand, the website of the Supreme Court has been hit with large numbers of packets for two motives. The first is related to the order that forces UK ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent site.
The second reason has to do with the fact that the organization is the one that decides whether or not Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be extradited to Sweden.