The momentarily created group of several anonymous online hackers started the ‘take down’ of several websites in so-called "revenge" for abruptly cutting of their businesses with WikiLeaks. This Friday saw another of a vicious attempt made in this regard which was, up till now, the most daring attack– and yet it failed. Amazon, unanimously known as the world's best and largest online retailer, was the focal point and high priority target for these hacktivist groups, these efforts organized by a group who calls itself ‘Anonymous,’ which is also strongly believed to be behind this week's several attacks on other noticeable websites as well, which also include serious financial websites such as PayPal and MasterCard.
But the fighting within the team and arguments of members devilishly drove the group into a dramatic last-minute switches of targets, just right before as according to them, Amazon was almost about to be hit by a "denial of service" Friday evening. Surprisingly a section of these hackers, which are assumed to be most-likely almost all teenagers, greedily redirected their fury and revengeful anger at another US online payment firm Paypal. They had every intention of freezing their entire payment system for all third parties – but signs explain some other story, apparently it failed tremendously except brief recoverable harms in few minority of countries.
A codenamed member of this ‘Anonymous’ group, recognized by his online pseudonym Coldblood, informed the Guardian that his group's campaign shall go on "for a while, mainly just because of how successful the attacks have been." This group has brought down several different websites, some of which we know are Mastercard, Visa, the Swedish government and the Swedish prosecution authority, and they have crashed for some time or another in these past very recent days. According to a very clear statement which is claimed by this mystery group, Anonymous stated that their task force or activists, as they call them, are neither "vigilantes" nor any terrorists. They say that the "The goal is simple: Win the right to keep the internet free of any control from any entity, corporation, or government."
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