Anonymous launched an attack on fax machines
The activists from the group Anonymous have come up with a new way to annoy the companies that have committed guilt before Wikileaks. Yesterday at 13:00 GMT they began to bombard with faxes.
On the IRC channel posted fax numbers of six companies, taken from public sources. They are invited to send messages of arbitrary content via online free fax services like MyFax.com or FaxZero.com . It is recommended to use a multistage Tor anonymizer or another chain of reliable proxy servers. You can include the Anonymous logo and random quotes from documents on Wikileaks.
As is known, earlier the operation “Payback” was limited only to DDoS attacks. “The enemy is adapting to our strategy. Gentlemen, but they are driven by clumsy bureaucracy. We can change faster, "- said in one of the messages on IRC channel Operation Payback
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While it is difficult to assess the damage caused by the attack on faxes. Soon after the start, Netcraft Web experts estimated that 73 users were participating in it.
I must say that this is not the first time that this method is used to annoy corporations. In January 2008, a similar fax bombing was organized against the Church of Scientology, one of the past targets of the group Anonymous.
Until now, despite the wide coverage of their activity in the media, the actions of Anonymous did not cause serious damage to the businesses of the companies. MasterCard said that last week they had a somewhat slower SecureCode transaction, but the Visa and MasterCard backend worked smoothly. The Paypal.com site went down on Thursday, but the company said that the attack had almost no effect on the servers for transaction service.
However, there is no doubt that the attack in one degree or another causes financial damage to these companies. In any case, they need to incur additional maintenance costs and infrastructure upgrades and they lose some customers due to the inaccessibility of their websites.
Attacking faxes can also be effective. The members of the group Anonymous have already begun to publish a list of numbers to which faxes stopped picking up the phone. One of them - the fax number Visa, listed on the website Yahoo Finance, was disabled on Monday afternoon. Companies are struggling with the problem as they can. In the Visa call center, the operator said that he could not provide this information.
On the IRC channel posted fax numbers of six companies, taken from public sources. They are invited to send messages of arbitrary content via online free fax services like MyFax.com or FaxZero.com . It is recommended to use a multistage Tor anonymizer or another chain of reliable proxy servers. You can include the Anonymous logo and random quotes from documents on Wikileaks.
As is known, earlier the operation “Payback” was limited only to DDoS attacks. “The enemy is adapting to our strategy. Gentlemen, but they are driven by clumsy bureaucracy. We can change faster, "- said in one of the messages on IRC channel Operation Payback
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While it is difficult to assess the damage caused by the attack on faxes. Soon after the start, Netcraft Web experts estimated that 73 users were participating in it.
I must say that this is not the first time that this method is used to annoy corporations. In January 2008, a similar fax bombing was organized against the Church of Scientology, one of the past targets of the group Anonymous.
Until now, despite the wide coverage of their activity in the media, the actions of Anonymous did not cause serious damage to the businesses of the companies. MasterCard said that last week they had a somewhat slower SecureCode transaction, but the Visa and MasterCard backend worked smoothly. The Paypal.com site went down on Thursday, but the company said that the attack had almost no effect on the servers for transaction service.
However, there is no doubt that the attack in one degree or another causes financial damage to these companies. In any case, they need to incur additional maintenance costs and infrastructure upgrades and they lose some customers due to the inaccessibility of their websites.
Attacking faxes can also be effective. The members of the group Anonymous have already begun to publish a list of numbers to which faxes stopped picking up the phone. One of them - the fax number Visa, listed on the website Yahoo Finance, was disabled on Monday afternoon. Companies are struggling with the problem as they can. In the Visa call center, the operator said that he could not provide this information.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/110015/
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