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note… this is a backup blog post. the original (currently under ddos) is here:http://*******/gzpVPX
DDoS attacks are flying across the Internet like there is no tomorrow. Just a few days ago, a hacktivist operating under the handle “th3j35t3r” decided to single-handedly take down the Wikileaks website with a DoS tool of his (or their) own creation. He issued a statement on Twitter shortly after explaining that the attacks against the WikiLeaks website were made for “attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, ‘other assets’ & foreign relations.” According to our statistics, his attacks resulted in 1 day 3 hours and 50 minutes of downtime for WikiLeaks before the site was completely yanked offline by Amazon and EveryDNS.
On the other side of the attack spectrum, the anonymous attackers involved in Operation:Payback have vowed to take a temporary break from their mega-assault on the entertainment industry in order to spend some time helping WikiLeaks. Their first attack has been set on PayPal, after the U.S. based company closed its doors on WikiLeaks citing an AUP violoation.
PayPal issued the following statement on their blog:
The following statements were released on an Anonymous Twitter account:
Anonymous organizers had this to say in regards to the temporary switch in focus,
After nearly 7 hours of constant attacks, the PayPal blog has either been deleted or permanently taken offline. Accessing the blog this morning revealed the following 403/access forbidden error:
403 error on ThePayPalBlog.com
Update – 12/4/2010 – 1:24 PM PST:
ThePayPalBlog.com is no longer resolving to the 403 error page and is completely down again.
Update – 12/4/2010 – 2:50 PM PST:
PayPal has reduced its entire blog to a plain text statement regarding their decision to suspend WikiLeaks.
PayPal Blog Notice
Update – 12/5/2010 – 1:28 PM PST:
ThePayPalBlog.com is now back up after 75 service interruptions and 8 hours 15 minutes of total downtime. This report doesn’t take into account the many hours that ThePayPalBlog.com resolved to a 403 error.
ThePayPalBlog.com
Update – 12/6/2010 – 3:06 AM PST
Official plans to support WikiLeaks have been announced.
Update – 12/6/2010 – 12:00 PM PST
Anonymous has launched its second attack on the main PayPal website. Minutes after they announced the launch of the attack, their infrastructure started to take a hit. Their website is now unavailable and presumably under counter DDoS attack.
The following poster has been circulating on the Internet:
Anonymous :: Paypal Attack Poster
Update – 12/6/2010 – 12:30 PM
They are now going after postfinance.ch, the bank that took down Julian Assange’s defense
fund. We have recorded 5 minutes of downtime so far.
note… this is a backup blog post. the original (currently under ddos) is here:http://*******/gzpVPX
DDoS attacks are flying across the Internet like there is no tomorrow. Just a few days ago, a hacktivist operating under the handle “th3j35t3r” decided to single-handedly take down the Wikileaks website with a DoS tool of his (or their) own creation. He issued a statement on Twitter shortly after explaining that the attacks against the WikiLeaks website were made for “attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, ‘other assets’ & foreign relations.” According to our statistics, his attacks resulted in 1 day 3 hours and 50 minutes of downtime for WikiLeaks before the site was completely yanked offline by Amazon and EveryDNS.
On the other side of the attack spectrum, the anonymous attackers involved in Operation:Payback have vowed to take a temporary break from their mega-assault on the entertainment industry in order to spend some time helping WikiLeaks. Their first attack has been set on PayPal, after the U.S. based company closed its doors on WikiLeaks citing an AUP violoation.
PayPal issued the following statement on their blog:
“PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaksdue to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity”
Shortly after the PayPal announcement, Anonymous decided that the PayPal Blog would be its first DDoS target in Wikileaks related counterattacks.
The following statements were released on an Anonymous Twitter account:
“TANGO DOWN — thepaypalblog.com — Blog of Paypal, company that has restricted Wikileaks’ access to funding. #Paypal#Wikileaks #WL #DDoS”
“Close your #Paypal accounts in light of the blatant misuse of power to partially disable #Wikileaks funding. Join in the #DDoS if you’d like”
According to our stats, ThePayPalBlog.com has been down as of 4AM PST on 12/4/2010 and shows no sign of coming back online anytime soon.“Close your #Paypal accounts in light of the blatant misuse of power to partially disable #Wikileaks funding. Join in the #DDoS if you’d like”
Anonymous organizers had this to say in regards to the temporary switch in focus,
“While we don’t have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same: we want transparency (in our case in copyright) and we counter censorship. The attempts to silence WikiLeaks are long strides closer to a world where we can not say what we think and not express how we feel. We can not let this happen, that is why we will find out who is attacking WikiLeaks and with that find out who tries to control our world. What we are going to do when we found them? Except for the usual DDoSing, word will be spread that whoever tries to silence or discourage WikiLeaks, favors world domination rather than freedom and democracy.”
Anti-Anti WikiLeaks
Update – 12/4/2010 – 10:50 AM PST:Anti-Anti WikiLeaks
After nearly 7 hours of constant attacks, the PayPal blog has either been deleted or permanently taken offline. Accessing the blog this morning revealed the following 403/access forbidden error:
403 error on ThePayPalBlog.com
Update – 12/4/2010 – 1:24 PM PST:
ThePayPalBlog.com is no longer resolving to the 403 error page and is completely down again.
Update – 12/4/2010 – 2:50 PM PST:
PayPal has reduced its entire blog to a plain text statement regarding their decision to suspend WikiLeaks.
PayPal Blog Notice
Update – 12/5/2010 – 1:28 PM PST:
ThePayPalBlog.com is now back up after 75 service interruptions and 8 hours 15 minutes of total downtime. This report doesn’t take into account the many hours that ThePayPalBlog.com resolved to a 403 error.
ThePayPalBlog.com
Update – 12/6/2010 – 3:06 AM PST
Official plans to support WikiLeaks have been announced.
Update – 12/6/2010 – 12:00 PM PST
Anonymous has launched its second attack on the main PayPal website. Minutes after they announced the launch of the attack, their infrastructure started to take a hit. Their website is now unavailable and presumably under counter DDoS attack.
The following poster has been circulating on the Internet:
Anonymous :: Paypal Attack Poster
Update – 12/6/2010 – 12:30 PM
They are now going after postfinance.ch, the bank that took down Julian Assange’s defense
fund. We have recorded 5 minutes of downtime so far.