WikiLeaks ' activist advocates call for another cyber attack on PayPal

Absrtact: Beijing time December 6 news, according to foreign media reports, WikiLeaks, the radical supporters called for PayPal to launch a cyber attack, but also the Amazon, EveryDNS, such as the company cut off the WikiLeaks service as an "enemy."

Beijing Time December 6 news, according to foreign media reports, WikiLeaks, the radical supporters called for a further cyber attack on PayPal, and the Amazon, EveryDNS and other companies cut off WikiLeaks services are listed as "enemies."

WikiLeaks has been hit by a series of hacking attacks since the release of 250,000 U.S. secret diplomatic documents a week ago, which has cost the site a lot of resources and has once crippled WikiLeaks. In this respect, a number of radical WikiLeaks supporters called for an "eye for tat", the WikiLeaks traitor to implement a network network.

In Friday, ebay's online payment service, PayPal, announced a freeze on WikiLeaks ' accounts, accusing WikiLeaks of violating the company's policies and saying that PayPal services could not be used for any project that "encourages, promotes, facilitates or directs others to participate in illegal activities". The move not only makes PayPal another company that has given up WikiLeaks, but it has cut off access to WikiLeaks ' money through PayPal.

Internet Security Monitoring agency Panda Labs points out that just a few hours after PayPal blocked WikiLeaks, a self-proclaimed "Anonymous" hacker group launched a "distributed denial of Service" (DDoS) attack on PayPal. Saturday 4 o'clock in the morning, PayPal website paralysis. Anonymous hacker group's Twitter account said: "Take the PayPal blog site thepaypalblog.com, the company blocked the WikiLeaks source of funds." ”

Panda Labs said the attack lasted 8 hours and the PayPal site did not recover until 13:30 P.M. in Saturday. One hours later, the hacker group again sent a message through Twitter to solicit suggestions for a new round of attacks: "identify more DDoS attacks." If there is any attack PayPal blog site suggestions, reply me. ”

Anonymous hacker groups also listed other WikiLeaks enemies: Amazon, which announced last week that it would no longer provide server hosting services for WikiLeaks; Stop providing resolution services for WikiLeaks wikileaks.org domain names, Forcing WikiLeaks to enable the EveryDNS of alternative domain names such as wikileaks.ch and wikileaks.de, and the French government, which has asked the French OVH company not to provide hosting services for WikiLeaks.

In Sunday, a member of the anonymous hacker group issued a statement titled "Assange's Revenge" through Twitter and Reddit, calling on WikiLeaks supporters to attack PayPal again and move the WikiLeaks data to more mirror sites. It is reported that the current WikiLeaks in the world has 355 mirror sites.

WikiLeaks supporters said via Twitter: WikiLeaks has launched a counterattack. We're going to get stronger. ”