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The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source
In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone to Facebook to say that the attack started on Tuesday and as a result much of the hullabaloo is focused on Anonymous.
As it is unlikely the work of Anonymous (although a cell thereof may contain mischief makers who might do this) a few Twitter accounts and other sources have come out to distance the amorphouse, leaderless activists collective from the attacks. According to SecurityWeek,
Anonymous, as best as they can considering that they are not unanimous and anyone can act under their name, distanced themselves from the DDoS against TPB and said that it wasn’t their doing. Following their initial statement on Facebook, TPB confirmed this in a message that said in part, “…we know that it is not Anonymous who is behind the ddos attack…We may not agree with Anonymous in everything, but we both want the internet to be open and free.”
That said, The Pirate Bay did recently admonish Anonymous for using a DDoS attack against Virgin Media ISP in the UK for complying with court ordered censorship of themselves. The DDoS attack against the ISP in question has dwindled away since; but even with such a diverse group as Anonymous, it’s unlikely that they’re going to cut off their noses to spite their facelessness.
“We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us,” said TPB in response to the DDoS attack against Virgin.
“So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDoS and blocks are both forms of censorship.”
Wikileaks moved their active releases and mirrors when the DDoS attack hit their main domains on Monday. Wikileaks has been the target of DDoS orbital-strikes in the past (in fact, November 2010 had one at the level of gigabits per second) so they are no strangers to protecting themselves from such floods. The current attack against Wikileaks has lasted over 72 hours.
Their archives appear to have come completely back online again as of Thursday morning at 7 a.m.
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