'Operation Payback' is taking a novel twist, equally attackers convey begun a novel fax-based sweat against simply about of the companies that cutting ties amongst WikiLeaks.
Hacktivists amongst 'Anonymous' are encouraging members to post faxes to Amazon, MasterCard, PayPal, Visa, Tableau Software in addition to Moneybookers inwards a bid to launch a fax-based version of denial-of-service, according to Netcraft. During the yesteryear several days, the grouping has launched distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Websites belonging to a issue of companies in addition to organizations, including MasterCard in addition to Visa.
"This latest sweat yesteryear the Anonymous grouping is analogous to the distributed denial of service attacks it has been carrying out against websites over the yesteryear week," blogged Netcraft's Paul Mutton. "In essence, this has turned into a DDoS assault against fax machines. The grouping started the fax-attacks (Dec. 13) at 13:00 GMT in addition to published a listing of target fax numbers inwards their telephone telephone to arms."
"The Anonymous collective are beingness encouraged to post faxes of random WikiLeaks cables, letters from Anonymous, Guy Fawkes, in addition to the WikiLeaks logo to the target fax numbers all twenty-four hours long," he continued. "It is non clear how many people are taking role inwards the attacks, but an IRC channel fix to render data most the sweat contained 73 users simply a few hours later on the fax-attacks started."
But in that place is a maxim most drinking glass houses in addition to stones, in addition to the digital version is playing out inwards this representative equally well, equally Anonymous has industrial plant life itself nether assault for supporting WikiLeaks, Mutton wrote.
"Many users were knocked off its IRC network later on its servers came nether assault (Dec. 13)," he blogged, adding the anonops.eu domain that used to denote the locations of IRC servers in addition to the electrical flow assault target) came nether assault equally well.
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