Hackers brought down the site of payment system Visa

Massive Attack hackers brought down the Internet site of settlement of the banking system Visa. It is reported by British broadcaster Sky News. The incident was another in a network over the past 24 hours the event of disconnection of pages of companies that refused this week to work with the organization WikiLeaks. Previously unknown hackers managed to break the payment processing system Mastercard. Both these companies were identified as targets for attacks by hackers group called AnonOps. On Wednesday, December 8, cyber-attacks have also led to a halt two sites in Sweden - page a lawyer representing two women who filed lawsuits against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assandzha and site Swedish prosecutor has made an inquiry at which he was detained in London. Experts note that now the world's cyberspace holds a new phenomenon, when there is a powerful electronic collision hackers supporters and opponents WikiLeaks. Defenders Assandzha indicate observers quickly amassed an army of cyber-capable off sites of the two largest companies in the world, serving the credit card, using the tools available online. These hackers claimed responsibility for attacks on sites Mastercard, Visa and others via their microblog called Operation Payback ("Operation: The Revenge") in the social network Twitter. As stated in an interview with BBC one of the former activists AnonOps in the U.S., in the case of Mastercard, it seems, something happened that was previously impossible. " In order to "crush" sites of similar companies, the giants require very large forces hackers. Attacks have occurred in the past day, showed that the number of supporters Assandzha may be even greater than previously assumed. Founded by former hacker Assandzhem and his team system, as experts note, is, in fact, "the network by the body, which is technically almost impossible to destroy. Its activists have computer knowledge, which is not much inferior skills of those seeking to stop the WikiLeaks. It has demonstrated a game of cat and mouse "with the site organization and the emergence of hundreds of its" mirror "versions. As the representative of AnonOps, WikiLeaks has become for hackers to "something more than just a resource" leakage "of documents. It has become a battlefield." Cyber-attacks on the company - "the only effective way to show these companies that we, the public are unhappy," he said. Source: NEWSru.com