DDoS Threats Targeting Anti-Piracy Groups on IRC and 4chan

Hackers are preparing to raise the stakes in their next assault on anti-piracy organisations after they crippled the website of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (Afact) on Tuesday. Users on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) boards and 4chan are nominating new victims for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks under a campaign dubbed 'Operation Payback'. Among the suggestions for targets are the corporate email servers of anti-piracy organisations.

BitTorrent monitoring service NG3Sys has also been nominated for attack for its role in assisting law firm ACS:Law target UK users who downloaded copyrighted pornographic content.

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