- Anonymous: "We will continue with the attacks until we get angry" - Although the "official portals" they use to communicate say that the attack is over, the users who participate in their chats continue to call to continue with the activities- The group of users who have organized the attack against SGAE, Ministry of Culture and Promusicae this week, they have been attacking other sites for twenty days and have caused a total of 742 service interruptions of 11 sites and more than 550 hours of inactivity of their targets- The records of service failure due to the attack of these cyberactivists have ACS: Law, with 179 hours of fall of its website; the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with 127 hours of inactivity, and Aiplex Software, with 123 hours
The group of cyberactivists called "Anonymous" has provoked, as a result of its Distributed Denial of Service (DdoS) attacks organized through the Internet against the Spanish targets Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Ministry of Culture and Promusicae, which began last Wednesday, 119 service interruptions and a total of more than 68 hours of inactivity of the three websites, being www.sgae.es which has been unborn (continues at this time) longer: more than 41 hours since the beginning of the attack. This is the result of the follow-up that researchers from PandaLabs, panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, have been publishing in real time on www.pandalabs.com/es/
From their website they announce that the attack is over. However, users who participate in their chats continue to call for continued protests and the DdoS attack.
Operation Payback (name given to the set of protest activities against institutions and companies defending copyright rights) has caused 742 service interruptions of the 11 websites of associations and companies attacked since it began twenty days ago. These service interruptions represent a total of more than 550 hours of inactivity of these websites.
According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, "the popularization of the activities of this group has led many users to join the cause who do not need to have technical knowledge. In fact, there are numerous tutorials and distributed tools to launch DdoS attacks over the Web. Which causes some not to take essential precautions to erase their trail, such as hiding IPs, for example. In the event that an investigation is opened, you can track down and locate some of the participants in the cyberprotesta."
Operation Payback began twenty days ago. The group, which calls itself "anarchic" and fights in defense of the free exchange of P2P files and against institutions or companies that defend copyright, do not consider themselves cybercriminals and say they do not seek economic benefit with this type of activity: "To be clear, we do not approve of obtaining economic benefits from botnets or malware; but the vast majority of what constitutes a cyber-crime is something as simple as downloading your favorite song instead of paying a ridiculous price for it (a price that the artist only keeps with a minimum percentage of)." This is just an excerpt from the interview conducted by Panda Security and published in http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/es/entrevista-con-anonymous/. "We will continue with the attacks, until we get angry," confirms the group's spokesman.
Therefore, we hope that the users of this group, who use all the power of the network to communicate with each other (profile on Facebook, accounts on Twitter, different web pages, posts published in blogs or forums, etc.), will continue to carry out this type of activities against the current objectives and on new ones in the coming days.
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