The pro-WikiLeaks botnet appears to be powered solely by volunteers who download and run the attack code. MasterCard Web site suffered sporadic bouts of downtime over the weekend. Moneybookers.com, which stopped doing business with WikiLeaks in August, saw some downtime. WikiLeaks issued a statement saying that it’s not affiliated with the Anonymous attacks. But a statement released on Friday, reportedly from the Anonymous Group, was careful to differentiate the group’s activities from criminal enterprises that aim to steal people’s personal information.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/wikileaks-botnet-continues-attack-on-mastercard-site