Lone warrior takes the fight to the racist and homophobic websites
Like a man on a mission, a hacker who goes by the name of Amped Attacksย is targeting and taking down homophobic and racist websites one by one through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Unlike other hackers who take out websites and services for some gains, Amped Attacks prefers to target racist and homophobic websites.
A DDoS attack is a common method for taking down a server by overloading it with requests.ย Amped Attacks takes down a website and tweets announcing it to the world. He/she uses the hashtag ย #tangodown in the tweets to announce the downing of website. This a hashtag commonly used by the online hacktivist group, Anonymous. However, other than #tangodown, there doesnt seem to any connection between the hacker and Anonymous. Also, no major Anonymous Twitter account has sanctioned or endorsed Amped Attacks exploits.
Amped Attacks earlier today took down a anti-gay website, godhatesfags.com, as you can see in the tweet below.
https://twitter.com/sgtbilko420/status/656982410245111808
Amped Attacks has successfully targeted and temporarily killed multiple sites.
https://twitter.com/sgtbilko420/status/656906046901002241
On the weekend, he took down kkkknights.com, though the site quickly returned. However, Amped Attacks has vowed to take it down again.
https://twitter.com/sgtbilko420/status/656950444447657984
Hello everyone, first of all I have to say that Techworm is the best. After I read this article of a solo hacker who is taking down racist and homophobic sites, I felt better and i’d give my appreciation to him personally. This kind of things do not happen so often…thanks again hacker “warrior” to fight for us