Hackers have launched a series of uncoordinated cyberattacks against British and Ecuadorian targets over the past week in apparent retaliation for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A member of a group calling itself the Philippine Cyber Eagles, an Anonymous offshoot with fewer than 20 Twitter followers as of Friday morning, earlier this week released a 44 MB file containing documents purportedly stolen from police agencies throughout the United Kingdom. The file does not appear to contain personal information, though it does include spreadsheets, press releases, and Microsoft Excel files dated from February 2019. That data dump came on the same day another self-described Anonymous group claimed to knock offline Police.UK, a Home Office website, with a distributed denial-of-service attack — a blunt digital assault technique that overwhelms sites with falsified traffic. Other groups launched similar attacks against town councils in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and Bedale, located north of Leeds. […]
Källa: Anonymous offshoots rush to avenge Assange arrest with cyberattacks – CyberScoop
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