{"id":42732,"date":"2012-08-10T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42732"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:40:24","slug":"anonymous-promises-revenge-and-lulz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42732-anonymous-promises-revenge-and-lulz","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous promises revenge and lulz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Hacking group Anonymous has promised revenge on the Ukranian government after authorities pulled down the popular file-sharing site Demonoid last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, our generous green friend, the Demonoid, was met with a state sponsored Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack&#8230;These illegal actions were then followed up with a raid by Ukraine authorities,&#8221; the group post on AnonPR yesterday (9 August).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In retaliation for your criminal acts against us and the free flow of information, we have already begun an operation against those responsible. Lazers are already being fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demonoid was hosted within the Ukraine, and was pulled down after Colocall, one of Ukraine\u2019s internet service provider, seized the site\u2019s data from servers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u201c#OpDemonoid\u201d objectives for revenge, Anonymous promises to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restore Demonoid services by any means necessary and, if possible, facilitate a series of mirror sites operated by free Anons everywhere. In essence, open source Demonoid;<\/li>\n<li>Retaliate against those responsible for the interruption. And Lulz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The BitTorrent site was ranked in the top 600 Web sites in global traffic and the top 300 in U.S. traffic.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/anonpr.net\/demonoid-900\/\" target=\"_blank\">AnonPR<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/56999-gauss-cyber-spying-virus-qa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gauss cyber-spying virus Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Symantec anti-virus update makes some PCs inoperable\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/54887-symantec-anti-virus-update-makes-some-pcs-inoperable.html\"><strong>Symantec anti-virus update makes some PCs inoperable<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Privacy risk rising from aggressive app ads\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/54449-privacy-risk-rising-from-aggressive-app-ads.html\"><strong>Privacy risk rising from aggressive app ads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\u201cInternet Doomsday\u201d is here\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/54437-internet-doomsday-is-here.html\"><strong>\u201cInternet Doomsday\u201d is here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/53259-flame-virus-can-sabotage-computers-symantec.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flame virus can sabotage computers: Symantec<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/53523-beware-free-public-wi-fi-kaspersky.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beware free public Wi-Fi: Kaspersky<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous has threatened to retaliate after the Ukraninan government pulled down Demonoid <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":25641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6165,31,195,6166,405,6167,6168],"class_list":["post-42732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-opdemonoid","tag-active","tag-anonymous","tag-demonoid","tag-hacking","tag-hacking-group","tag-operation-demonoid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42733,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42732\/revisions\/42733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}