International Crackdown WikiLeaks Sympathizers with Atlanta Connection - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA. Soutien à WikiLeaks. Un collégien génie de l'informatique, inquiété - France. EXLUSIVE: FBI After Anonymous. Anonymous | Technology | guardian dossier. Anonymous DDoS Participants Arrested in UK. UPDATE: FBI Executes Warrants for Anonymous DDoS Attacks UPDATE: Anonymous Calls UK Arrests a "Declaration of War" Five young men have been arrested in the U.K. in an investigation into the continued distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks levied by the international script-kiddie movement know as Anonymous.
A report form ABC News states: "The five males aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26 are being held after a series of coordinated arrests at residential addresses," a statement said. "The arrests are in relation to recent and ongoing 'distributed denial of service' attacks (DDoS) by an online group calling themselves 'Anonymous'. "They are part of an ongoing MPS investigation into Anonymous which began last year following criminal allegations of DDoS attacks by the group against several companies. "This investigation is being carried out in conjunction with international law enforcement agencies in Europe and the US. " More arrests are expected internationally as investigations progress. FBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks 'hacktivists' WASHINGTON — The FBI said Thursday that it had served more than 40 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an investigation into computer attacks on websites of businesses that stopped providing services in December to WikiLeaks.
The FBI statement announcing the search warrants was the first indication that the U.S. intends to prosecute the so-called "hacktivists" for their actions in support of WikiLeaks. The search warrants were executed on the same day authorities in Great Britain announced that they had arrested five people in connection with the attacks, which temporarily crippled the websites of Amazon.com, PaylPal, MasterCard, Visa, the Swiss bank PostFinance and others. FBI officials were unavailable for comment, and the statement did not say who was served or where the searches were conducted.
The statement noted that a group known as "Anonymous" had claimed credit for the attacks. The attacks did no long-term damage and in most cases only lasted a few hours. FBI conducts searches tied to WikiLeaks cyber attacks. Police arrest five over Anonymous WikiLeaks attacks | Technology. Five people were arrested yesterday in connection with a spate of online attacks last month in support of WikiLeaks. Police said the five males, aged 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26, were arrested in a series of raids at 7am in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London.
All five are being held in custody at local police stations. The five were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the group of "hacktivists" known as Anonymous, who temporarily crippled the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after those companies cut off financial services to WikiLeaks. The attacks followed the whistleblowing site's release of US diplomatic cables. The distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, which bring down sites by bombarding them with repeated requests to load webpages, are illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act and carry a maximum fine of £5,000.
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