http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/op_payback/
By: Kevin Poulsen
Date: 2011-07-26
It turns out there’s a method behind the FBI’s raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from a list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous’ DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing down PayPal during ”Operation Payback” — Anonymous’ retaliatory attack against companies who blacklisted WikiLeaks. On July 19, the feds charged the first 14 defendants under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspects for evidence.
An FBI affidavit first published Tuesday by an NBC affiliate in Dallas lays out how the FBI decided on its targets, and suggests the bureau may have plenty more.
According to the affidavit, by FBI agent Chris Thompson, PayPal security officials were in close contact with the bureau beginning on December 6, two days after PayPal froze WikiLeaks’ donation account and the first day it began receiving serious denial-of-service traffic. FBI agents began monitoring Anonymous press releases and Twitter postings about Operation Payback, while PayPal collected traffic logs on a Radware intrusion prevention system installed on its network.
On December 15, the company turned over a USB thumb drive containing the Radware reports, which documented “approximately 1,000 IP addresses that sent malicious network packets to PayPal during the DDoS attacks.” The list represented the “IP addresses that sent the largest number of packets.”
It was easy to distinguish the packets coming from the’ “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” — Anonymous’ fire-and-forget DDoS tool — because they contained strings like “wikileaks,” “goof,” and “goodnight,” the affidavit notes.
The newly released affidavit was offered in support of a search warrant for the home of an Arlington, Texas couple and their son, who were among the July 19 targets, and have not been charged. The house was the source of 3,678 packets in about two-and-a-half hours starting December 8.
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By: Kevin Poulsen
Date: 2011-07-26
It turns out there’s a method behind the FBI’s raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from a list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous’ DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
FBI agents served 40 search warrants in January on people suspected of hosing down PayPal during ”Operation Payback” — Anonymous’ retaliatory attack against companies who blacklisted WikiLeaks. On July 19, the feds charged the first 14 defendants under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and raided an additional 35 suspects for evidence.
An FBI affidavit first published Tuesday by an NBC affiliate in Dallas lays out how the FBI decided on its targets, and suggests the bureau may have plenty more.
According to the affidavit, by FBI agent Chris Thompson, PayPal security officials were in close contact with the bureau beginning on December 6, two days after PayPal froze WikiLeaks’ donation account and the first day it began receiving serious denial-of-service traffic. FBI agents began monitoring Anonymous press releases and Twitter postings about Operation Payback, while PayPal collected traffic logs on a Radware intrusion prevention system installed on its network.
On December 15, the company turned over a USB thumb drive containing the Radware reports, which documented “approximately 1,000 IP addresses that sent malicious network packets to PayPal during the DDoS attacks.” The list represented the “IP addresses that sent the largest number of packets.”
It was easy to distinguish the packets coming from the’ “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” — Anonymous’ fire-and-forget DDoS tool — because they contained strings like “wikileaks,” “goof,” and “goodnight,” the affidavit notes.
The newly released affidavit was offered in support of a search warrant for the home of an Arlington, Texas couple and their son, who were among the July 19 targets, and have not been charged. The house was the source of 3,678 packets in about two-and-a-half hours starting December 8.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
When Anonymous first began its highly professional, ubiquitous campaign a week or two ago, I told you that it looked like a trap for the opposition. I had no idea they'd be springing the trap this quickly. There's got to be another shoe that's going to fall.
ReplyDeleteI think Anonymous is Israel since wikileaks was a target that triggered all this, which by the way wikileaks is basically controlled by Israel from their offices in Israel. They have a trained team of editors to "fix" the info on wikileaks that supports whatever position Israel wants out there.
ReplyDeleteYup, this is all a set up and game to take our minds off the fact that Los Alamos has been abandoned (everyone has gone underground) and other such facilities have been abandoned and traffic out here in my part of the woods is way up on military coming here to our underground facilities out by Williams lake etc....
Whatever is happening, it will be soon. Massive movement of dirty loading trucks back and forth here, massive numbers of container trucks unmarked loaded with merchandise and massive, massive numbers of RV's all brand new, no old ones, with men and women ages about 20 to 50 with no children, and no truly old people, and all headed out toward williams lake.
Yup, Nibiru is probably here and Sept is the big date OR THE MILITARY WILL USE THAT SPACE WEAPON TO DEPOPULATE THE PLANET AT THIS TIME. That is what all this BS is covering up.
I apologize, I meant "Wikipedia" is being edited by Israels trained minions, both professional and volunteers. Its like an army brigade in a battle zone, except the weapons of war are words.... and demons for them and goodness and light for us. Yahoo.
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