06 September 2011

WikiLeaks knocked offline by Anonymous - RefRef due Sept. 17 | #loic #ddos #hackers

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks.org crashed, under what the organization called a heavy cyberattack. However, the developer behind RefRef, an application created for those associating with Anonymous to use instead of LOIC, said that WikiLeaks was taken offline during a test of the new tool. RefRef will be tested again Wednesday, before it is released on September 17.

RefRef is platform neutral tool, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within SQL to create a devastating impact on the targeted website. In late July, an Anon on IRC was promoting the tool, explaining to those in a room frequented by journalists that RefRef is pure JavaScript, and uses the target site's own processing power against itself. In the end, the server succumbs to resource exhaustion due to RefRef's usage.

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