NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Hackers sympathetic to Wikileaks were continuing efforts to bring down PayPal's website tonight and promising to go after Amazon later, threatening to disrupt web commerce just as the holiday shopping season approaches its peak.
"Remember: current target is api.paypal.com, port 443," a hacker using the Twitter handle @AnonOpsNet, for Anonymous Operations, tweeted on Thursday afternoon. "KEEP FIRING!!"
PayPal received the brunt of the attacks after Amazon got a reprieve earlier in the day. "Okay, we have changed our target -- the Hive isn't big enough to attack Amazon," the person behind Anonymous Operations tweeted around noon. "NEW TARGET: api.paypal.com. Port: 443. SPREAD THE WORD."
PayPal's site has so far survived the assaults, which are coming in the form of distributed denial of service attacks, or DDoS. "The PayPal.com site is fully operational," a spokeswoman said in a statement to Ad Age. "We can confirm that there have been attempted DDoS attacks on paypal.com. These attacks have at times slowed the website itself down, but have not significantly impacted payments."
By Natalie Zmuda
So be careful people if you are online-shopping specially this time of the year!
Ceren Şenol
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment