[Update] 4chan group take down Visa in latest website attack
In the latest string of DDoS attacks performed by ‘Anonymous’, a group who were born out of notorious message board- 4Chan, have now taken down visa.com & visaeurope.com within the last few hours. The attacks began after Anonymous declared war against those sites who have denied service to WikiLeaks.
The Visa websites were taken offline at 21:00GMT today.
Update: 23:45GMT-Website came back online. Visa have yet to comment.
Update: 00:35GMT -Website again, goes offline. Still no comment from Visa.
Anonymous earlier announced on Twitter their plans to target Visa next, and posted periodic updates right through to their success.
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Anonymous’ Twitter account now seems to be suspended. Perhaps a bad move by social media giant ?!
The latest hacking spree with Anonymous never began with this attack on Visa; earlier today they took down PayPal, Mastercard, and several others. PandaLabs earlier released a summary of the hactivists’ activity:
- After pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, Mastercard’s website was taken down and remains out of service.
- Senator Joe Lieberman’s website was taken down for 12 minutes (the first .gov site to be attacked).
- Sarah Palin’s website was taken offline by a small group of Anonymous attackers.
- The group sent spam faxes to Joe Lieberman’s office and to PostFinance.
- PostFinance was attacked the hardest, leaving customers without the ability to conduct online banking.
- They took down the website of the lawyer representing the two women who were allegedly raped/assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
- The group took down Assange’s Swedish prosecutor’s website.
This latest spreee has been dubbed ‘Operation Payback’, to which here is a related video:
What are your thoughts on the latest attacks by Anonymous which carried out against the anti- WikiLeaks individuals?
