PayPal’s website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continue attacks. Activists have recruited volunteers into a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet. MasterCard and Visa also had their public websites knocked offline by a “hive” of as many as 3,000 activists. The attacks slowed the website itself down for a short while, but did not significantly impact payments. The Anonymous group’s Operation Payback has gone after websites belonging to organizations that have cracked down on unlicensed music and movie copying.”]
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