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Anonymous #OpIsrael, use of botnets & hypothesis on attackers

The data on the cyber attacks reported by Israel government are really different from the one provided by the group of hacktivists in the damage report for #OpIsrael that account for a Total damage of $3-plus billion damage. The most plausible hypothesis is that Anonymous gathered control of a huge quantity of machine infected with a malware. The researchers in TrendMicro use data collected by the Smart Protection Network, a cloud-based security infrastructure that rapidly and accurately collects and identifies new threats, delivering instant protection for data wherever it resides”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/13664/cyber-crime/anonymous-opisrael-use-of-botnets-hypothesis-on-attackers.html

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