The grouping launched massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on at to the lowest degree 8 Tunisian authorities websites start out sun night, according to Al Jazeera together with the Internet safety fellowship Sophos.
As of four p.m. EST Monday, the official Tunisian authorities website, www.tunisia.gov.tn, was however offline.
Last Thursday, Anonymous launched like attacks against websites operated past times the authorities of Zimbabwe.
Both attacks are business office of "Operation Payback," Anonymous' long-running induce against organizations it feels are threatening Internet freedoms.
Tunisia together with Republic of Zimbabwe had blocked their citizens' access to Wikileaks terminal month, afterward clandestine U.S. State Department cables unflattering to either reason were revealed equally business office of Julian Assange's huge diplomatic-data upload.
Protests bring rocked Tunisia since the middle of terminal month, when a street vendor ready himself on burn downwards inwards populace afterward law nigh downwards his unlicensed fruit stand. He lived, simply 3 others bring died.
"ANONYMOUS has heard the cries for liberty from the Tunisian people together with has decided to help them win this battle against oppression," reads business office of a press issue (http://www.anonnews.org/index.php?p=press&a=item&i=133) at an Anonymous-affiliated website.
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