Right now is the secret “organization” Anonymous fighting a war against opponents to WikiLeaks, as you can read in many newspapers. They are angry because Julian Assange was arrested two days ago, and now they are seeking revenge. The main targets have until now been VISA, Mastercard, Amazon and Paypal, since they disabled the ability to donate money to WikiLeaks. And donations are WikiLeaks’ only income source, so it definitely hurts them.
The attack actually seems pretty organized just for this once. There are plenty of websites where you can get information about the attacks and how you can help in the fight. For an example: http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html. The attacks are also being discussed on web forums, like 4chan, and Flashback if you understand Swedish.
Here are three links to their Twitter feeds where you can read news about the attacks and which site that is the current target:
If you want to get involved – I really recommend you to join the IRC server. There are a couple of thousands users logged in and discussing attack related stuff.
The attackers also have a radio channel, which a guys broadcasted live on yesterday. He was playing music and calling VISA and Mastercard, asking them what was wrong with their sites. You can find the URL to the stream on their IRC. But here are two links to the stream, don’t know if they still work tho:
Apparently they have created a new Facebook too, since their first one was deleted:
See ya on the battlefield! I believe this can evolve into something really interesting. At the moment there are about 9000 computers performing DDoS attacks.
