Members of Anonymous regularly band together to take down websites owned by those they don’t like, but security firm Symantec reports that a recent attack could actually have backfired, putting amateur hacktavists’ bank accounts at risk.
Anonymous uses tools such as the Low Orbit Ion Cannon or Slowloris to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its targets, with sympathetic Anons downloading the software to become part of a voluntary botnet.
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