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c SCENARIO 6–3: Anonymous and the “Operation Payback” Attack

In January 2012, a self-described hacktivist group called Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks against commercial and government Web sites, in response to two different incidents. For one thing, the group stated that its attack, called “Operation Payback,” was in retaliation against the (U.S.) Department of Justice for taking down Megaupload, a massive file-sharing site. For another, Anonymous stated that it was supporting the coordinated January 18 online protest against two controversial legislative proposals in the U.S. Congress: PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). While most of the participants in this online protest, including Wikipedia and Google, used tactics that were nondisruptive, Anonymous launched DDoS attacks against the Web sites of organizationsthatsupportedthetwocongressionalbills.Thesitesattackedincludednotonlyatthe RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) sites but also at the sites for the U.S. Copyright Office and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), whichcollectsfeesfrombusinessthatusemusic.(TheonlineprotestinvolvingSOPAandPIPA,as well as the controversial aspects of these two legislative proposals that sparked this protest, are described in detail in Chapter 8.)


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Introductions
Anonymous group was established due to the influential message board of the internet
4chan, a popular forum of 2013 with gamers and hackers. Group’s name resulted from 4chans'
earlier times when any posting made had no name give and was referred to as Anonymous. It is
very hard to dissolve the membership of this group which has been described to have the same
features with the flock of birds
Background
During the year 2010, many companies of Bollywood paid Aiplex Software to unveil
website attacks on those which did not respond to takedown notices. An activist of piracy
launched Operation Payback during the month of September 2010 which was a retaliation. The
original plot was to attack Aiplex Software directly, nonetheless, before the planned DDoS they
found out that the website of the firm had been taken down by an individual on their own.
Therefore Operation Payback went ahead to making attacks on the copyright stringent
organization's websites and that of photographic industry which made a combined downtown of
30 hours on the two websites. Within the bracket of t...


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