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FBI raids Texas colocation facility in 4chan DDoS probe. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is targeting a Texas-based computer network that the government thinks was hijacked for the Anonymous group's Operation: Payback DDoS attack on PayPal.

FBI raids Texas colocation facility in 4chan DDoS probe

"As part of the process of identifying the computer system that I seek to search, I may be forced to check each system belonging to the target customer until I have determined that it is the computer to be searched," the author of the FBI's Affidavit in Support of a Search Warrant of the facility explains. The FBI's request was obtained by The Smoking Gun news site. It comes following Anonymous or 4chan's attempt to bring down various financial service companies that refused to do business with Wikileaks, most notably PayPal and the Swiss bank PostFinance. Vote for your target According to the document, PayPal contacted the FBI on December 6, following 4chan's DDoS attack on PayPal's blog, which was pushed offline for several hours. Good night PayPal. How FBI raided Anonymous. The FBI yesterday executed 40 search warrants around the US to gather evidence on the Anonymous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in defense of WikiLeaks last year—attacks which targeted Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Amazon.

How FBI raided Anonymous

And when the FBI comes a-knockin', the whole house starts a rockin'. Ars has seen posts from a private forum in which several targets of the FBI raids offer brief descriptions of the experience, along with the occasional photo of a beaten-in front door. We cannot guarantee the authenticity of these accounts, though we believe them to be genuine. A note of context: "LOIC" here refers to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, a software tool used in the Anonymous DDoS attacks that can flood a network connection with data. I used LOIC during that whole Wikileaks fiasco. A second account showed a similar level of, err, enthusiasm on the part of the FBI. 6am, door busted down (NOT KIDDING), "FBI FBI FBI POLICE FBI GET YOUR ARMS UP AND DONT MOVE THEM. They started it!

FBI raid. The FBI, armed with search warrants and special members of the Cyber Task Force, raided a home at 208 North Eagleville Road last Saturday, Jan. 29, as part of a larger investigation into cyber attacks led by a group supporting WikiLeaks.

FBI raid

After the FBI thoroughly interrogated the UConn chemical engineering student, he admitted to being a part of a larger, underground group going by the name of Anonymous. Though the student admitted to knowing what he was doing as well as that this was not the first time he had been involved in similar activities, he was not arrested. This national group is responsible for disrupting credit card websites such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.

After entering the website, several commands are run that overload the servers for days and render them useless to users. The FBI originally interrogated two UConn students, Peter Lariviere and Zack Hixon, in the neighboring home at 204 North Eagleville Road before realizing they had the wrong household.