WikiLeaks is slowly recovering from a sustained denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that lasted approximately 72 hours.
During the attack, the whistle-blowing website shifted massive amounts of content, including #GIFiles and other archived data to a mirror site.
Although it remains unclear who was behind the attacks against WikiLeaks, a former Anonymous member by the name of Nyre claimed credit for downing The Pirate Bay for over 24 hours this week.
“You must be wondering why did I attacked The Pirate Bay. I am Nyre. I am highly against Anonymous. I do not support Anonymous anymore. I sometimes help the feds,” Nyre wrote in a PasteBin post.
“The Pirate Bay was a press-release website for Anonymous, then I had a idea, why not take it down? Why not make it impossible for Anonymous? Get on your knees, Anonymous. I am a one-man army. I am not a hacker. I am a security killer. Expect yourself, f******.”
It should be noted that The Pirate Bay recently went on record as criticizing Anonymous for taking down the Virgin Media website over its blocking of the Pirate Bay file sharing site, as per a recent order from the U.K. High Court.
“We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free Internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us,” The Pirate Bay wrote on its Facebook page.
But @AnonAteam defended its decision to target Virgin Media.
“The attacks are not simply about facilitating access to the Pirate Bay website but to stop the type of order used to block your website being used as a precedent for further censorship on the Internet,” AnonAteam wrote on Tumblr.
“The entire reason for the protest is to protect freedom of expression from being blocked without any form of judicial process. ISPs are the gateways to democracy in this technology age, to censor access to websites with such an abuse of the legal process, outside parliament our a Humans Right court is unlaw and an abuse of power.”
