Operation Payback Strikes Again: MasterCard And Visa Sites Under Attack
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The attack, dubbed Operation: Payback, "was confirmed on Twitter at 9.39am [GMT] by user @Anon_Operation, who later tweeted: 'WE ARE GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT http://www.mastercard.com/ is DOWN AND IT'S CONFIRMED! #ddos #wikileaks Operation:Payback(is a bitch!) #PAYBACK.'"
(UPDATE: About 12 hours later the Visa.com site also went down and as of 21.30 p,m, it remains offline. In addition, payment processor Datacell has announced it will be suing Visa and Mastercard for suspending payment service to wikiLeaks).
This is at least the third distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack made by Anonymous, which itself has suffered attacks to its own site.
The New York Daily News says Anonymous, which has been tied to the message board 4chan, represents:
"[T]he first worldwide grass-roots rebellion on the Internet. After all, the same computer systems that allow our society to centralize and store huge amounts of information, the same Internet that allows instant movement of documents, also makes it possible for some unknown little guy along the chain to access those records and divulge them."
The movement has been a violent one thus far, at least virtually. Wired published the following statement from an Anonymous member:
"We are the clear logic used to unveil wrongdoing. The general public, clouded by misleading information mostly by the media with a political agenda, fails to see and understand this wrongdoing. Because of this, those who do the wrongdoing escape unpunished. Anonymous is here to ensure punishment does not go unserved to those who deserve it."
Wired explained that Anonymous "has a history of [DDoS] attacks, including a recent campaign against the record industry for attacking file sharing sites, mass infiltrating an online game for kids to protest its stupidity and an long-running, earlier campaign against the Church of Scientology."
Although these attacks require technical expertise to orchestrate, most of those who participate simply run specialized software to help flood sites like Mastercard, PayPal and PostFinance with traffic.
WikiLeaks, meanwhile, continues to publish new leaked diplomatic cables. Its spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson told ABC News that the arrest of founder Julian Assange and continuing attacks on the WikiLeaks site are not phasing the organization:
"'It is not derailing us in any way,' said Hrafnsson, adding that a group of five to six people is running Wikileaks' operations in Assange's absence. 'This is a turning tide and starting a trend that you can't really stop unless you want to shut down the Internet.'"
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HAHA... I just finished an email to Visa condemning them for halting Wikileaks donations, and was trying to find Mastercards site, which YES, it was found by my browser, but NO, I couldn't go there...AWESOME. I left them a similar email later, and only found out about the ddos attacks this eve.
[...] Anonymous, a group of online activists representing what has been called the first “real grassroots Internet rebellion”, brought down part of MasterCard’s site Wednesday in revenge for its refusal to take donations to WikiLeaks. … View full post on mastercard – Google Blog Search [...]
I strongly believe that MasterCard should not have pulled plug for Wikileaks, how can you do this!, I knew that would happen. I've written some more articles here: http://www.noumoris.com
[...] move came after Anonymous' Operation Payback, which had been orchestrating a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that distrupted access to Visa and Mastrcard's [...]
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I hope they take out MC like they took out the RIAA and Scientology! wait a minute...
Revenge is a plate best served cold. And this is COLD!!
I have a suggestion for Anonymous: Joe Lieberman's web site.
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