Wikileaks begs supporters to call off massive cyber attack on US: Supporters in bid to ‘take down internet in revenge for US government cutting Assange’s web links after Hillary email leaks’ – IOTW Report

Wikileaks begs supporters to call off massive cyber attack on US: Supporters in bid to ‘take down internet in revenge for US government cutting Assange’s web links after Hillary email leaks’

 

  • Github, SoundCloud and PayPal also reported to be down 
  • Some of Amazon’s cloud services also believed to have been hit
  • Outage appeared to be primarily affecting web users on the US East Coast 
  • Second wave of attacks began around 1PM ET
  • Department of Homeland Security ‘investigating all potential causes’
  • The ongoing interruption of its network resulting from a DDoS attack
  • DDoS attacks are a primitive form of hacking using botnets – networks of computers that hackers bring under their control 

A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks has forced hundreds of major websites from Amazon to Twitter offline across the globe – and WikiLeaks believes its supporters were responsible.

It urged its backers to ‘stop taking down the US internet’, saying ‘Mr Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing’.

It then tweeted: ‘The Obama administration should not have attempted to misuse its instruments of state to stop criticism of its ruling party candidate.’

The Ecuadorian government switched off Assange’s internet service Sunday after he released another tranche of emails showing the contents of a speech given by Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs.

WikiLeaks accused John Kerry and the US Government of asking Ecuador to shut down Assange’s internet connection, but the South American country denied it came under any pressure from the US or any other government.

 

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15 Comments on Wikileaks begs supporters to call off massive cyber attack on US: Supporters in bid to ‘take down internet in revenge for US government cutting Assange’s web links after Hillary email leaks’

  1. I just heard a hot shot Cyber Security guy say that these attacks are coming from the gangs that lock up your domain and then send you a ransom demand. According to this guy they were getting real close to bringing the ring down so they launched an attack. He flat out denied it had anything to do with WikiLeaks but what the heck, who knows who is paying this guy.

  2. @BBrad ~ doesn’t really matter if these hackers were w/ WikiLeaks, Assange just got some great press & also scared the crap out of a lot of IT Security pukes at the same time
    … from what I know about the attacks, they were Denial of Service attacks …. pretty simple … just overload the system w/ traffic

    …. besides, all is well ….. the UN’s in charge of AlGore’s Amazing Internet* now!
    (‘AlGore’s Amazing Internet’ is a registered trademark)

  3. I dunno, Bad_Brad, that guy sounds like he’s peddling the “inflammatory video” line for somebody. We’ll see if the various MSM blowholes start parroting “ransom gang”, and we get a voxplanation of the evil ransom gangs from some twenty five year old sissy who just googled them thirty minutes ago.

  4. Gwenn, do you have to be on face book to see the poll. I’m just seeing a facebook home page for david hill. Are you talking about that AJC poll which shows the race dead even in GA?

  5. If you get to his home page the poll andresults are there. 588,000 women from coast to coast replied and Trump was at 90%. MSM and polls are all lying. One done on Facebook by my cousin in Conneticut polled 150 people and basically came out with the same thing, This on the upper east coast. Real people want the truth. Lou Dobbs is the only one to come out and say Trump will win bigtime.

  6. Here’s a list of websites that are having trouble..
    Most are a part of “Dyn” Managed DNS infrastructure.
    to see a map of the outtages:
    http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/
    ActBlue
    Basecamp
    Big cartel
    Box
    Business Insider
    CNN
    Cleveland.com
    Etsy
    Github
    Grubhub
    Guardian.co.uk
    HBO Now
    Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
    Imgur
    Intercom
    Intercom.com
    Okta
    PayPal
    People.com
    Pinterest
    Playstation Network
    Recode
    Reddit
    Seamless
    Spotify
    Squarespace Customer Sites
    Starbucks rewards/gift cards
    Storify.com
    The Verge
    Twillo
    Twitter
    Urbandictionary.com (lol)
    Weebly
    Wired.com
    Wix Customer Sites
    Yammer
    Yelp
    Zendesk.com
    Zoho CRM
    Credit Karma
    Eventbrite
    Netflix
    NHL.com
    Fox News
    Disqus
    Shopify
    Soundcloud
    Atom.io
    Ancersty.com
    ConstantContact
    Indeed.com
    New York Times
    Weather.com
    WSJ.com
    time.com
    xbox.com
    dailynews.com
    Wikia
    donorschoose.org
    Wufoo.com
    Genonebiology.com
    BBC
    Elder Scrolls Online
    Eve Online
    PagerDuty
    Kayak
    youneedabudget.com
    Speed Test
    Freshbooks
    Braintree
    Blue Host
    Qualtrics
    SBNation
    Salsify.com
    Zillow.com
    nimbleschedule.com
    Vox.com
    Livestream.com
    IndieGoGo
    Fortune
    CNBC.com
    FT.com
    Survey Monkey
    Paragon Game
    Runescape

    They’ve been attacked more than 5 times so far..

  7. DDOS is not an elegant attack. It’s a protest/nusiance. Like cramming people into a store, and chanting rude things. Using hacked home routers and the various embedded Internet of Hacked Things (IOHT) devices as bots is relatively new.

    If this had been a State player there would not be a single exposed SCADA still online in the whole country.

    The power grids would be down. Hard. Water treatment systems, down. Sewage treatment plants, down. Telecom, down.

    We would be seeing satellites de-orbiting themselves, for no apparent reason. Power plants, including nuclear power plants, having seizures, trains crashing into each other, ATC having a stroke, etc..

    It would not a fun day.

  8. I actually thought this was quite clever..
    Accuse your supporters of massive cyber attacks, before the Clinton gang can accuse…………..wait for it……………………………………………
    The Russians!!

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