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4chan.org, the popular image-based bulletin board, was temporarily shut down after it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service attack.Their status site announced on November 13 of a shutdown caused by a large DDoS attack. Two days later the website was still down.“Site continues to be down due to a DD... |
16 November 2011
13:02 GMT |
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Hong Kong police has arrested an individual suspected of being responsible for the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx).Two weeks ago, HKEx was forced to suspend trading for seven stocks including HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the exchan... |
24 August 2011
02:44 GMT |
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) suspended trading for seven stocks after its news website was incapacitated by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.The attack began on Wednesday and continued through Thursday. The affected stocks included HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong ... |
12 August 2011
10:56 GMT |
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LiveJournal has experienced downtime during the past couple of days because of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that overwhelmed the company's servers.The outages began on Tuesday, but the company didn't release a statement until yesterday when it confirmed it was the target of an attack."We c... |
28 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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The FBI is investigating twelve individuals for allegedly participating in cyber attacks launched earlier this year by Anonymous against Koch Industries and related organizations.Back in February, Anonumous launched #OpWisconsin, a campaign against Koch Industries and its owners David and Charles Koch whom they accus... |
27 July 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Security giant McAfee claims that DDoS attacks against South Korean websites seen back in March might have been a North Korean exercise.According to a newly published McAfee report called "Ten Days of Rain" [pdf], the malware used to carry out the attacks was configured to disable itself after ten days.Furthermore, i... |
6 July 2011
14:14 GMT |
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MasterCard's website was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that was carried out earlier today by a hacktivist associated with the AntiSec movement."MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :... |
28 June 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The Anonymous hacktivist collective is planning distributed denial-of-service attacks against the Federal Reserve website and those belonging to the Malaysian government.Both DDoS attacks are planned for today, but are part of separate Anonymous operations. Nevertheless, they coincide with Flag Day in the United Stat... |
14 June 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Anonymous has made good on its promise of retaliating against the Spanish National Police after several people associated with the hacktivist group were arrested in the country last week."Thousands of people around the world have joined Anonymous; arresting three of them will not hurt us, but will add more people to ... |
13 June 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Online campaigning platform change.org has been the target of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since Monday, following the hosting of a petition that calls for the release from custody of Ai Weiwei, a leading Chinese artist.Ai is best known for being the primary artistic consultant for the building Beijin... |
21 April 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Newsnet Scotland, a news website critical of Scottish Unionist parties, has been offline for twelve hours following what its administration believes was a politically motivated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.The website went down at 12:55 pm on Monday and the web team immediately began working its Danish... |
19 April 2011
08:42 GMT |
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A computer programmer who built a botnet to DDoS online publications for running a story about him was sentenced to two years in prison.The story of Bruce Raisley, 48, of Kansas City, Missouri, began back in 2000, when he broke off ties with a group called "Perverted Justice" that hunted and exposed online predators.... |
18 April 2011
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Malaysia's top news website, Malaysiakini.com, was the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday which rendered it unreachable.It's unclear who instrumented the attack or what was their intention, but it coincided with the start of elections in Sarawak, the largest Malaysian state lo... |
13 April 2011
02:55 GMT |
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against blog publishing platform LiveJournal, calling them outrageous and illegal.President Medvedev maintains a personal blog on LiveJournal since April 2009, a few months after the entire site's develo... |
8 April 2011
10:14 GMT |
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The Anonymous collective has suspended the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the PlayStation Network and other Sony online properties whose downtime might inconvenience gamers.Anonymous launched a DDoS campaign against Sony in response to the company's recent actions that involved suing PlaySt... |
8 April 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at the blog of prominent Russian political activist Alexey Navalny resulted in repeated downtime for the entire LiveJournal platform.According to security experts from Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab who have been keeping an eye on one of the botnets used, ... |
6 April 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Several Sony websites have experienced downtime during the last 24 hours as a result of distributed denial-of-service attacks mounted by the Anonymous collective.The hacktivist group announced that it will target Sony in an open letter posted online yesterday, which accused the company of breaching the privacy of num... |
5 April 2011
04:26 GMT |
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Anonymous has resumed its DDoS campaign against the recording industry by targeting the record labels represented by RIAA in the LimeWire case.Last fall a judge issued a permanent injunction effectively terminating the development of LimeWire, one of the oldest P2P file sharing applications around.The ruling came as ... |
29 March 2011
04:03 GMT |
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The Anonymous hacktivist collective has launched new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), after the trade group sued LimeWire for 75 trillion dollars.LimeWire, one of the oldest peer-to-peer file sharing applications, was discontinued last October ... |
28 March 2011
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Anonymous hacktivist group has revived Operation Payback by launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against bmi.com, the website of Broadcast Music Incorporated.Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a US organization which collects music license fees and represents the interests of songwriters, composers and publish... |
11 March 2011
06:26 GMT |
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WordPress.com was the target of several major distributed denial-of-service attacks last week that were launched from computers in China.WordPress.com is a blog hosting service based on the WordPress platform and run by Automattic, the company that maintains and sponsors the software.The service hosts around 18 milli... |
7 March 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Almost thirty governmental and private South Korean websites were hit this weekend in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched with the help of a small botnet.The Presidential, Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry websites were targeted, along with those of many financial institutions, but the impact wa... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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The Anonymous group of online hacktivists is organizing distributed denial of service attacks against Yemen governmental websites to support protests in the Arab country.Anonymous took a break from its Operation Payback against companies and organizations ousting WikiLeaks in order to assist the Tunisian protests tha... |
4 February 2011
05:59 GMT |
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The FBI plans to execute over forty search warrants around the country to seize computers connected with Anonymous-organized DDoS attacks against PayPal and other companies.A FBI spokesperson confirmed the existence of the search warrants, but refused to say how many of them were already executed, according to the Sa... |
28 January 2011
11:36 GMT |
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Anonymous has launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Tunisian official websites in response to the government's efforts to censor WikiLeaks.The notorious group of Internet activists reacted to Tunisian administration's order to ban access to WikiLeaks and several of its mirrors sites ... |
3 January 2011
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Court fillings reveal that FBI is currently investigating the distributed denial of service attacks launched against PayPal by the Anonymous group of hacktivists.The Smoking Gun reports that an FBI affidavit sworn in support of a search warrant at a Dallas hosting firm, reveals details of the federal probe.At the beg... |
30 December 2010
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Anonymous has launched a distributed denial of service attack against Bank of America, after the US-based financial giant banned transactions destined for WikiLeaks.About two weeks ago, Bank of America (BoA) joined the list of companies boycotting WikiLeaks by announcing that it will block all transactions suspected ... |
28 December 2010
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The Spamhaus Project, one of the world's leading anti-spam outfits, was the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack this weekend after it publicly outed a Russian hosting provider harboring cybercriminal operations.Last Tuesday, the organization issued a warning about a WikiLeaks mirror website, ... |
20 December 2010
12:58 GMT |
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Dutch police have arrested another teenager accused of participating in pro-WikiLeaks DDoS attacks organized and carried out by members of the Anonymous group.The 19-year-old suspect was picked up by authorities last Saturday afternoon from his home in Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Groningen, and is said to have participated ... |
13 December 2010
02:26 GMT |
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The Anonymous group of hacktivists continue their DDoS campaign in support of WikiLeaks, with new attacks targeting Moneybookers and the Dutch National Police Service.It seems the attacks on Moneybookers.com, an online payment service similar to PayPal, are somewhat retroactive in nature, because the organization has... |
10 December 2010
11:54 GMT |
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A 17-year-old teenager from Manchester was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against official Call of Duty gaming servers.The Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) launched an investigation after receiving a complaint from Activision about a commercial DDoS service c... |
10 December 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Following the arrest of Julian Assange and MasterCard’s decision to block the ability of card owners to donate to WikiLeaks, the Anonymous group of hacktivists launched DDoS attacks against the Swedish Public Prosecutions Office and the credit card company.Since the beginning of last week, when it began publish... |
8 December 2010
05:57 GMT |
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PayPal has closed the account used by WikiLeaks to receive donations, prompting the Anonymous group of hacktivists to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against its blog.WikiLeaks doesn’t seem to be able to get a break since it started releasing the U.S. Department of State diplomatic cables at... |
4 December 2010
07:57 GMT |
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EveryDNS has terminated services for wikileaks.org because the stability of its infrastructure was threatened by multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at the domain.The attacks against WikiLeaks began on Sunday, before the organization started publishing leaked U.S. Department of State cables... |
3 December 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Anonymous launched a coordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) website, in light of The Pirate Bay losing its appeal.The appeal's verdict was announced on Friday, with the site's founders having their pr... |
29 November 2010
12:30 GMT |
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As it was preparing to begin releasing a massive cache of secret US diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks was hit by a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which temporarily crippled its website.The announcement was made from the organizations official Twitter account and read: "We are currently under a mass dis... |
29 November 2010
04:15 GMT |
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A 19-year-old teenager admitted to organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Australian government websites as part of a larger Anonymous campaign.Steve Slayo, from Roxburgh Park, appeared before a judge in Melbourne Magistrates' Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to four charges, including... |
25 November 2010
07:44 GMT |
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Burma has been offline since Tuesday, when a massive DDoS attack clogged the country's modest 45 Mbps Internet pipeline with junk traffic hitting at a rate of between 10 and 15 Gbps.Officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Asian nation, which has a longstanding history of human rights violat... |
4 November 2010
11:13 GMT |
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After hitting riaa.org during the weekend, Anonymous members have turned their attention towards the United States Copyright Office and are currently coordinating a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its website.Anonymous is group of hacktivists claiming to fight for freedom of expression and freedom... |
3 November 2010
13:21 GMT |
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The website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been offline over the weekend and continues to be so, because of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched by Anonymous in retaliation to the LimeWire shutdown.Last week, a federal court issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Lime ... |
1 November 2010
10:17 GMT |
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A group of Anonymous members has launched successful denial of service attacks against two websites belonging to KISS frontman Gene Simmons, after he recently made some aggressive comments regarding illegal file sharing.For almost a month now, a notorious group of Internet activists called Anonymous has been at war w... |
14 October 2010
11:13 GMT |
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The Anonymous group has began attacking the websites of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE), as part of its ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign against anti-piracy organizations.Anonymous is large a group of hacktivists claiming to fight back at mora... |
6 October 2010
12:24 GMT |
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The Anonymous group has attacked the online operations of Ministry of Sound, a major independent record label, who's legal representatives are pushing for a court order, that would force ISPs to give it subscriber information.Ministry of Sound is the largest independent record label in the world with an estimate... |
4 October 2010
06:30 GMT |
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The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack launched by Anonymous against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) yesterday, has ended up affecting almost 8,000 unrelated websites.Operation Payback, the DDoS campaign led by Anonymous against anti-piracy groups and entertainment industry associat... |
28 September 2010
08:53 GMT |
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A London-based law firm called Davenport Lyons is the new victim of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign launched by an Internet group known as Anonymous against organizations supporting anti-piracy efforts.The campaign, dubbed "Operation Payback," began last Saturday with a DDoS attack against mpaa.org,... |
24 September 2010
04:37 GMT |
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The sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks conducted by 4chan members against anti-piracy organizations continue with UK-based ACS:Law Solicitors becoming the new target.The DDoS campaign is called “Operation Payback” and was started by members of the 4chan image board in retaliation to th... |
22 September 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Members of the notorious 4chan image board have launched a coordinated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against mpaa.org, the website of the Motion Picture Association of America.The attack began at 9:00 PM EST and is still ongoing. It only took eight minutes for the MPAA website to go down.According to ... |
18 September 2010
04:37 GMT |
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A group of scammers is trying to trick website owners into sending them money by threatening to launch crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.According to security researchers from Symantec who intercepted the fake messages, the scammers are sending them to email addresses they gather from domain whoi... |
18 August 2010
15:27 GMT |
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Over the weekend DNS Made Easy, a provider of enterprise DNS and IP Anycast services, was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at over 50 Gbps. The unusually powerful attack led to an aggregated downtime of around 90 minutes.The attack occurred on Saturday and according to... |
9 August 2010
11:10 GMT |
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A survey conducted by Sophos, which tried to determine how people view state-sponsored cyber-espionage has revealed alarmant attitudes regarding the practice. Over sixty of respondents considered that using malware and hacking to spy on other countries is acceptable.Spying efforts allegedly conducted by hackers hired... |
3 August 2010
16:18 GMT |
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