Neowin News Feed for: Ddos

Three Anonymous members plead guilty over PayPal attack

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:33:22 +0000

Hackers identifying themselves as part of the Anonymous collective have admitted their guilt in an attack against PayPal, which the company alleges lost them £3.5 million during 2010. Read more...

WikiLeaks back in action after DDoS

Tyler Holman — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:06:51 +0100

WikiLeaks is back up and running again, in the aftermath of the DDoS attacks by the mysterious 'AntiLeaks' group that followed the release of 'TrapWire' survillance documents. Read more...

WikiLeaks hit by sustained DDoS over surveillance leaks

Tyler Holman — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:18:21 +0100

WikiLeaks has been facing a sustained DDoS attack for over 5 days, with a new patriotic hacker group taking credit, but there could be more to the story (it involves surveillance and the government). Read more...

Dutch party moves to legalize DDoS attacks

Tyler Holman — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:50:50 +0100

In a bold move, a Dutch opposition party wants to turn DDoS attacks into a legitmate form of online protest by legalizing one of Anonymous' favorite tactics, calling it a 'fundamental right.' Read more...

Anonymous hater claims he launched Pirate Bay cyber attack

John Callaham — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:18:44 +0100

A person who claims to be a former member of the hacker group Anonymous has claimed he launched the denial of service attack on The Pirate Bay web site earlier this week. Read more...

DDoS brings The Pirate Bay to its knees

Tyler Holman — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:11:37 +0100

Just a few days after they publically criticized Anonymous for attacking websites on their behalf, The Pirate Bay is suffering downtime from a DDoS attack of unknown origins themselves. Read more...

The Pirate Bay calls Anonymous attacks censorship

John Callaham — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:02:00 +0100

The Pirate Bay website has posted word on its Facebook page that it considers denial of service attacks launched by groups like Anonymous to be just another form of censorship. Read more...

Anonymous takes down Irish government sites

Tyler Holman — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:19:56 +0000

Striking government websites once again, Anonymous is taking credit for bringing down several Irish government websites, in protest of copyright reform laws that are being called the 'Irish SOPA.' Read more...

Anonymous takes down DOJ, FBI, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in response to MegaUpload news

Owen Williams — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:54:22 +0000

Just an hour ago, news broke of Megaupload being taken offline by the US government, and Anonymous has responded by undertaking a denial of service attack on the DOJ website. Read more...

LulzSec spokesman "Topiary" charged by UK police

Tom Dwyer — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:36:54 +0100

Earlier this week the UK police announced that they had arrested a suspected member of hacking group LulzSec. “Topiary” the apparent spokesperson was today charged with conspiracy to carry out a DDOS attack and unauthorised computer... Read more...

Anonymous calls to boycott PayPal - stock drops ~3%

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:06:00 +0100

It appears that Hactivist group Anonymous have changed their ways of doing things and have now began to boycott PayPal. The group has called for its supporters to deactivate their PayPal accounts in protest of the... Read more...

WikiLeaks to sue Visa and MasterCard for blocking donations

Denis Wong — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:12:35 +0100

It has been more than half a year since Visa and MasterCard faced DDoS attacks from Anonymous and WikiLeaks supporters for holding back financial donations to the whistleblower organization. In an announcement made earlier today,... Read more...

LulzSec DDoS Magnets.com -- [update] and now the CIA

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:24:10 +0100

In news that is a surprise to absolutely no one, LulzSec have once again gone about their antics, this time bringing down Magnets.com using a distributed denial of service attack. What is a little different to... Read more...

Five arrested over 'Anonymous' DDoS attacks

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:25:54 +0000

Five males have been taken into custody this morning, after their attacks against websites like PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon. The massive online group called 'Anonymous' was successful in disrupting service to the websites, all... Read more...

Amid protests, Egypt shuts down internet [Updated]

Christopher White — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:25:54 +0000

Information is a powerful tool and according to the Twitter feed #Jan25, that tool has been shut down in Egypt amidst major protests over the past few days. Social media sites have been used in... Read more...

Dutch arrest 19 year old for DDOS attacks

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:37:15 +0000

A few days ago, Neowin reported that Dutch authorities had arrested a 16 year old in connection to the distributed denial of service attacks that took place on behalf of Wikileaks as part of Operation:... Read more...

Operation Payback Day 2: Teen boy arrested, more attacks planned

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:05:52 +0000

It seems that Anonymous has suffered its first casualty in their cyber war on Wikileaks detractors. In the Netherlands, a 16 year old boy has been arrested for contributing to the Distributed Denial of Service... Read more...

Paypal releases Wikileaks funds

Owen Williams — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:19:29 +0000

In the midst of various DDOS attacks, Paypal has moved to release Wikileaks' funds from it's account, after it was suspended late last week for a breach of the sites Terms of Service. AllthingsD reports that... Read more...

MasterCard website taken down by WikiLeaks supporters

Alan Cone — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:24:01 +0000

After Amazon pulled the plug on WikiLeaks' hosting solution with the company, others soon followed suit. PayPal announced that they have cut off donation support for the whistleblowing site, and on Monday, MasterCard took the... Read more...

Wikileaks retreats to Amazon after DDoS attack

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:40:25 +0000

After becoming the victim of an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, the controversial and influential Wikileaks has decided to move their operation to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. A DDoS attack... Read more...