Anonymous resumes Operation Payback with attack on BREIN

[Echo]

Anonymous resumes Operation Payback with attack on BREIN.


Anonymous, while continuing their actions to support protestors in North Africa, the Middle East, and Wisconsin, has resumed their most infamous operation to date - Operation Payback. On Thursday, the mass protest started with a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on the Dutch anti-Piracy organization BREIN.
The attack on BREIN (anti-piracy.nl) started just after 12:00 a.m. on Thursday morning Eastern Standard Time. In a matter of minutes, 10 people using the LOIC software Anonymous is known for, were able to take the organization?s website offline.
From that point, it remained offline, only appearing intermittently around 04:00 EST. At the time this article goes to press, the domain is offline.
BREIN is the Dutch acronym for Protection Rights Entertainment Industry Netherlands. It?s also the Dutch word for brain. They have been linked to Hollywood anti-piracy efforts, and were selected by Anonymous for recent actions against a large Warez domain that impacted a legit business in the crossfire.
While targeting a Warez (illegal software) Topsite, BREIN seized several [COLOR=#006400 ! important][COLOR=#006400 ! important]servers[/COLOR][/COLOR] from hosting provider WorldStream. Among the equipment seized were servers owned by a legit ISP with no connection to the illegal software domain. According to reports, the ISP owner lost $138,000 USD worth of equipment in the BREIN raid.
TorrentFreak has more information here, including allegations of BREIN installing backdoors on the seized servers and hijacking the ISP owner?s GMail accounts.
In addition to the Warez raid that snared a legit business, Anonymous is also targeting BREIN for Operation Payback?s resurrection because of their involvement with the takedown of 11 Usenet related domains.
While the Usenet domains also included access to illegal software, BREIN?s actions resulted in cutting Usenet connections to legitimate groups, removing their right to communicate in the process. In all, the Usenet raids by BREIN impacted nearly a million people.
Right now, Anonymous is using the DDoS attack on BREIN to build momentum. They plan to stick with smaller targets until support grows. Once that happens, then the sky is the limit for them when it comes to selecting a new target for cyber protest.





?Since early 2011, Anonymous has busied itself with very successful operations which it can be very much proud of. Not only has Anonymous proven that it is a force to be reckoned with, it has grown in strength and diversity, and it continues to gain numbers and attract attention from all over the world,? a statement from Anonymous reads.
?Operation Payback has now begun its "researching" phase, due to some actions taken by some copyright organisations, including "BREIN", who have censored popular sites on the internet over the past couple of weeks. This censorship can't be taken lightly, it is time to avert some attention to them and enable them to [realize] that this kind of censorship will not be tolerated, Anonymous style.?
Operation Payback started as a campaign by Anonymous against the anti-piracy efforts of groups such as the RIAA, MPAA, ACS Law, AiPlex, and AFACT. In addition, the operation has also taken on, and taken out, MasterCard, Visa, the Swiss bank Post Finance, PayPal, and others.
Update:
Five minutes after this story was published, Anonymous started targeting ifpi.org.
From their domain: "IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide, with a membership comprising some 1400 record companies in 66 countries and affiliated industry associations in 45 countries."


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[Hillside]

Awesome! Thanks for the report mate

[Echo]

It is comfortable to know such a group is there

[chrishdman87]

At the end of the day these little ddos attacks arent going to help anything.

[Echo]

Just found this video on Youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwVfl3m32w

[SuicidalMedia]

Lol, they're bunch of lifeless kiddies. I mean seriously, why would anyone go against BREIN, or any other copyright organization? We've been discussing about this few times, and we all know that everyone would do the same if he was a movie director, writer, or a musician. Even though they're not the ones paying to those copyright organizations, production companies are paying to the copyright organizations to stop spreading their work all over the Internet. And they're right, sharing of the movies, shows, music, and everything else is ok if it's done out of one reason, which is sharing between friends. (And no one can stop that!)

This thing they're trying to prove is stupid, they're actually trying to prove that there's nothing wrong in spreading a movie that's released few weeks ago on all major DDL sites.

They're rich, stupid, lifeless, and they think that they're some hackers just because they use that LOIC application.

They're the biggest fail on the Internet in the few last years. It's sad...

[Echo]

Nice comment Jason , i think you have a good point ... But still , we can't be sure of that

[nForc3r]

Atleast they're trying to do something about those unfair practices and "pay up or else" schemes.

They're are getting recognition and attention from journalism.. cant say the same about your comment

[tres]

I wanna join anonymous. I wanna become a bad ass hacker and shut down all those corporations that strugle to silence us and manipulate us.
All citizens of the world have the right to access information and freedom of speech.
All citizens of the world have the right to free flow of information, even if it is porn.

I wanna join anonymous.

[SuicidalMedia]

Atleast they're trying to do something about those unfair practices and "pay up or else" schemes.

They're are getting recognition and attention from journalism.. cant say the same about your comment

I really don't get it.. What are you trying to say? That YOU have the right to watch movies, tv shows, or playing video games without paying for them?

You helped in any way authors of the movie or tv show? You donated them some money to have better effects? Anything?