Hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a file-sharing site sometimes used to distribute pirated material. Law enforcement officials from the United States and other countries moved against a number of people Thursday that were named in an indictment returned earlier this month in federal court in Virginia.
Source: https://threatpost.com/anonymous-changes-ddos-tactics-megaupload-retaliation-012112/76124/