NEW YORK – The hacktivist group Anonymous is currently avenging the Fed’s decision to shut down popular file sharing site Megaupload, reports Gawker. But the ‘hacktivist group’ is using a tricky tactic to muster the required firepower that has taken down the Department of Justice, MPAA and Universal Music websites.
According to Gawker the Anonymous group are “distributing a link that ropes internet users into an illegal DDos attack against these websites simply by clicking it.” The link is being shared in Anonymous chat rooms and on Twitter “often with no context except that it relates to Operation Megaload.”
The link that is being used is a “page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It links loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). When activated, LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic.”
The DDoSing is considered a criminal offense and “could earn you 10 years in prison, if you do it intentionally.”
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