Interesting DDOS activity around Wikileaks
Valentin reports that several sites related to the recent activity around Wikileaks and the prosecution of Julian Assange seem to be under DDOS, confirmed here ==> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539
The main Mastercard website is offline right now - note that this outage does not affect transaction processing. The Swedish prosecutors office was taken offline, they were back on around 12:30 GMT. Other sites that the attackers deem to be "anti-Wikileaks" are also affected.
Update: 2010-12-08 20:34 UTC Mastercard has released a statement about the DDOS
The attackers are rumoured to actually be asking for volunteers "for the cause' in their activity. Since this activity is illegal in most countries, participating in these attacks may have legal implications. Readers should use caution, participation in something like this is NOT anything like donating to a charity - it's more like smashing windows and setting fires at a peaceful demonstration. Plus knowingly downloading code to participate in a botnet isn't the best move for the continued health of your workstation ...
If we see developments in this story, we'll update this post. Comments of course are welcome!
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No Love.
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
and yes, loic is used against the "anti-wikileaks" targets, as well as other tools, like slowloris and so on. they changed targets, yesterday it was postfinance.ch which was down for 2 days i think.
alexus
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Steve
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Jim
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
"May you live in interesting times." - Unknown
RobM
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Gary
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Tisiphone
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Let's face it: wikileak's next target is a bank and those are nervous or maybe driven.
The reaction was foreseeable.
No related activity here.
Would be interesting to know which component does not match these attackes.
Jens
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Beave
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago
Oh yeah...
Dec 8th 2010
1 decade ago