Wikileaks is down after massive DDoS attack by "Anti-leak" hacker group.

The Wikileaks is down after hit by massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for last five days.The DDoS attack was started on August 3rd.
This is not the first time the wikileaks is being DDoSed, the website was down for four days in May 2012.

The attack is a very broad one. Most WikiLeaks mirrors have been brought offline as well, with some coming back today. Even sites simply related to WikiLeaks have been targeted.

These include the WikiLeaks-endorsed website Cabledrum, including its mirror of the WikiLeaks website, and French non-profit FDNN, which hosts a WikiLeaks' donation portal. The latter was attacked shortly after WikiLeaks linked to it as an alternative to donate while the WikiLeaks website is down. WL Central and Justice for Assange were also attacked for a short period of time.

A Hacker group called AntiLeaks claimed that they are responsible for the attack and has issued the following statement:

"You can call me DietPepsi. I am the leader of AntiLeaks. We are not doing this to call attention to ourselves. We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at aslyum in Ecuador.
Assange is the head of a new breed of terrorist. We are doing this as a protest against his attempt to escape justice into Ecuador. This would be a catalyst for many more like him to rise up in his place. We will not stop and they will not stop us."

WikiLeaks is currenlty raising money for more bandwidth and is instructing readers and supporters to head to a mirror site to donate money.

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Anonymous had this to say in response :

We'll Find And Destroy You #Anonymous #ExpectUs

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Let the Cyber-wars begin.

Nothing that these b@st@rds can do, a simple text file leaked to piratebay will be distributed around in a matter of minutes.

You are talking about AntiLeak, aren't you? Yes, it is possible, but people should know what's been leaked.

IMHO, AntiLeak could be a government conspiracy to strike against WikiLeaks using a facade of some youth who think they are helping some cause.

Assange is the head of a new breed of terrorist. We are doing this as a protest against his attempt to escape justice into Ecuador.

Read it using Geroge Bush's accent and you'll realize it's a statement by the US govt..

DeSmOnD dAvId said:
You are talking about AntiLeak, aren't you? Yes, it is possible, but people should know what's been leaked.

IMHO, AntiLeak could be a government conspiracy to strike against WikiLeaks using a facade of some youth who think they are helping some cause.

bang on point! :/

Re: Wikileaks is down after massive DDoS attack by "Anti-leak" hacker group.

Its like Alien Vs Predator, fighting each other.
Whoever wins, we (US) lose.
:lol:

DietPepsi - ????
Dude got Addicted, i think.
IMO, hackers use some fancy names.

wikileaks keeps going down
at times the cables disappear, at times all the other stuff except the cables disappears
then it all comes back
this has been happening since before the Reuters Journalist Shootdown in Iraq leak
worst part was the massive number of links posted on twitter leading to fake cables, then everyone got confused about the real cables
looks like wikileaks got like 2000 servers they keep shifting the content on
if you see a bunch of stuff you want to catch up on just download em

A new face of US government to hide behind it and attact.

gameranand said:
A new face of US government to hide behind it and attact.

You mean 'Dietpepsi' is like Sector-7 (remember,Transformers) of US govt?

feels like a Govt. attack

thetechfreak said:
feels like a Govt. attack

Govt-financed-anti-assange-attack!!

check out the army doctrines and the case studies, journalist interviews, autopsies... all leaked, apart from the cables
you cannot say one and only one country stands to lose face and is so attacking this source

We cant even say it is done by a Govt.
Maybe, an anti-anonymous in the rise and this is their play.

Poor kids. Have nothing useful to do. :-(

Hail anonymous!

dashing.sujay said:
Hail anonymous!

Vigilantes of Digital age! :high5:

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Blackhat hackers vs Blackhat hackers
This will be fun