New text file leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained byNBC Newssuggest that the UK ’s spy agency , GCHQ , found a DDoS attack on the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec .
A introduction allegedly from a 2012 NSA conferencepoints out that GCHQ ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group ( JTRIG ) launched a distributed denial of servicing ( DDoS ) attack against the internet electrical relay chat room used by Anonymous . The attack was intended to shut down communication between the hack .
Part of a larger operation codenamed Rolling Thunder , the attack was obviously in response to Anonymous ’ 2011 DDoS attack on PayPal , which impacted several major credit bill of fare company . The document indicate that JTRIG factor also posed as Anonymous members to pass through the same chat rooms , so as to identify cyber-terrorist .
The reportis , in fact , the first prison term that JTRIG ’s universe has ever been publicly bring out . NBC explains why it come into existence :
[ T]he building block ’s mission included computer web attack , hoo-hah , “ Active Covert cyberspace Operations , ” and “ Covert Technical Operations . ” Among the methods listed in the document were jamming phones , estimator and email account and masquerade as an enemy in a “ false flag ” operation . The same papers said GCHQ was increasing its vehemence on using cyber tools to assail opposer .
wrap Thunder made use of Facebook and Twitter to monish hacker that the DDoS attacks they were attempt were illegal , which was obviously surprisingly successful : 80 percent of those contracted evaporate from the infiltrated IRC chat room within a month . Subsequently , the military operation name members who were still performing attack , and even convict one hacker who slip 8 million identicalness on PayPal .
The DDoS attacks waged by JTRIG , however , also “ interrupted the connection communications of political objector who did not engage in any illegal hacking ” as well as “ shut[ting ] down websites with no link to Anonymous . ”As NBC points out , pronounce it “ an appalling representative of overreact to squash dissent , ” it ’s moot whether such meter are really justifiable . What do you suppose ? [ NBC ]
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