According to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, the coordinated "Anonymous" attack was dubbed “Operation Avenge Assange,” a reference to Wikileaks founder
Jul 20, 2011 · The indictment says the DDoS attack was part of “Operation Avenge Assange.” According to a flyer for the operation that was posted online, members of Anonymous declared PayPal “the enemy Dec 08, 2010 · On Tuesday night, Operation Payback also announced on Twitter that it was starting an attack the Web site of the Swedish prosecution service that ordered the arrest of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder. That site was subsequently knocked offline and remained down for some time. Apr 13, 2019 · The cyber attack was reminiscent of 2010’s “Operation Avenge Assange” which was launched by the broader “Operation Payback” effort. The movement lead to hacktivists hitting companies such as PayPal, PostFinance, Mastercard, Visa, and others who had blocked services to WikiLeaks with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Jan 22, 2013 · Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks film. Speaking during an Oxford Union debate, the WikiLeaks founder described The Fifth Estate as a 'massive propaganda attack' Published: 24 Jan 2013 According to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, the coordinated "Anonymous" attack was dubbed “Operation Avenge Assange,” a reference to Wikileaks founder Dec 08, 2010 · "Operation Avenge Assange" aimed at the Swiss bank PostFinance, which froze Assange's assets, was very successful, and has kept the site down for some 24 hours as of this writing.
Oct 27, 2019 · Operation Avenge Assange Following WikiLeak's unprecedented expose of sensitive documents containing US diplomatic cables in February 2010, the U.S. government criticized the WikLeaks founder Julian Assange, and began pressing on the affiliates of WikiLeaks to halt their transactions with the Swiss-based website.
Jan 14, 2020 · The operation expanded into Avenge Assange when MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal refused service to WikiLeaks and Amazon.com removed the organisation from its servers. This followed threats from the US government following WikiLeaks’ publication of leaked diplomatic cables.
Dec 08, 2010 · On Tuesday night, Operation Payback also announced on Twitter that it was starting an attack the Web site of the Swedish prosecution service that ordered the arrest of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder. That site was subsequently knocked offline and remained down for some time.
Jan 22, 2013 · Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks film. Speaking during an Oxford Union debate, the WikiLeaks founder described The Fifth Estate as a 'massive propaganda attack' Published: 24 Jan 2013 According to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, the coordinated "Anonymous" attack was dubbed “Operation Avenge Assange,” a reference to Wikileaks founder Dec 08, 2010 · "Operation Avenge Assange" aimed at the Swiss bank PostFinance, which froze Assange's assets, was very successful, and has kept the site down for some 24 hours as of this writing. Dec 08, 2010 · It appears on a poster for “Operation Avenge Assange”. The poster ends with – “The future of the internet hangs in the balance. We are Anonymous. We do not forgive; we do not forget 'Operation avenge Assange' Hackers appeared to be using denial service attacks against the websites, in which computers across the internet are harnessed to jam sites with an overload of requests As part of its 'Operation Avenge Assange,' a group supporting Wikileaks called The Anonymous has planned a retributory Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Paypal.