Security firm Imperva has published a detailed analysis of an attack by Anonymous on one of its customers. The target in question was the Vatican, although the identity of the organisation has not been confirmed. The group of 10 to 15 professional hackers used off-the-shelf tools such as Havij, Acunetix and Nikto to check for vulnerabilities and attempt SQL injection attacks. When these attacks failed, the skilled hackers elicited help from so-called “laypeople” to carry out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.”]
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