Donning a pair of reflective sunglasses and a mask that obscured the bottom half of his face, Baas, a spokesman for WikiLeaks hacking group Anonymous, appeared on screen for the first time this week. The hacktivist used the opportunity to layout some of the method to the group’s perceived cyberattacking madness.
“Our pool of targets is actually very limited,” Baas told British news agency Sky News. “We are going after the agencies that were directly involved in the censorship of WikiLeaks. They include PayPal who cut off services and withheld funds. The same with Visa and MasterCard, then Amazon who cut off their service support.”
There are some agencies the group won’t attack however, no matter what they might say about WikiLeaks and its supporters. “We don’t attack the media, that is a big no no,” said Baas from behind his lo-res video feed. “Even the media that has been critical of us, we don’t attack any of the news. Facebook, Twitter and social network sites–even though they have done some things against us, we’re not going to go after them.”
According to the spokesman, the group pulled together 9,000 WikiLeaks supporters for its most recent attack. The software Anonymous uses has apparently been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
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