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hacker group attacks RT.com as Manning trial begins
RT,
3 June, 2013
RT.com
was temporarily disabled Monday for just under five hours by a DDoS
attack. It coincided with RT.com's reporting on the trial of Bradley
Manning and massive anti-government protests in Turkey, with coverage
continuing uninterrupted on Twitter.
The
attack, claimed by anti-WikiLeaks hacker group AntiLeaks, also came
as RT celebrated its status as the first international news agency to
reach one billion views on YouTube.
“Yes
we are responsible for the attack on #RT_com,” read a tweet from
AntiLeaks Monday. The same hackers previously used a distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in August of 2012 during the debut
episode of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s show on RT. .
Did you miss us? #RT
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Hackers
often use DDoS attacks to disable websites by fabricating Internet
traffic and overwhelming a site's hosting service, which is what
happened in this case.
“This
is a continuation of our protest against RT.com for their support of
the traitor Bradly Manning and cyber terrorist Julian Assange who I
need to remind your viewers once threatened to release a
‘thermonuclear device’ of government files containing the names
of spies, sources, and informants if he’s killed or brought to
trial,” AntiLeaks
wrote in an email to journalist Michael Rusch
Yes we are responsible for the attack on #RT_Com. If you've been following our twitter you should already know this. #AntiLeaks
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Monday’s
leak coincides with the first day of the Bradley Manning trial, with
the AntiLeaks spokesman referring to Manning, who risked his life to
reveal atrocities carried out by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan,
as a “coward.” AntiLeaks has previously described Assange as “a
new breed of terrorist” and warned him Monday that “you will see
your final days here in America.”
This
attack however, like the one last year, did not impede RT's ongoing
coverage of the Manning trial or the protests in Turkey.
— Anti Leaks (@AntiLeaks) June 3, 2013
The AntiLeaks hackers also make reference to RT's announcement that the number of people who have watched our coverage has exceeded one billion.
@rt_com I'm sorry I spoiled your "1 Billion Views' Special Program" parading around a bunch of terrorists (cont) tl.gd/n_1rkkolg
— Anti Leaks (@AntiLeaks) June 3, 2013
Little
information can be gleaned on AntiLeaks aside from the organization’s
Twitter feed, though its few dozen tweets over the course of nearly a
year are peppered with patriotic American lines like "Semper
Fi," the motto of the US Marine Corps. Various blogs have
speculated the group is made up of staff from the National Security
Agency, the decades-old, fabled intelligence organization only made
public under the George W. Bush administration, or computer experts
affiliated with the NSA. One tweet, sent after AntiLeaks disabled
WikiLeaks’ website in August 2012, reveals little more.
“You
can call me DietPepsi,” the
message read. “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 Asylum in Ecuador.”
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