Our Daily Breach: The Wayback Attack
Murdoc takes a way back to the wayback machine attack from wayback when.
Last year, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was under attack and succumbed to the denial of service attacks from the hacktivist group known as SN_Blackmeta. Their reasoning was to punish American organizations for their complicity in the Palestinian genocide. Ultimately this backfired against the hackers for fairly obvious reasons. If your goal is to hold leaders accountable for their war crimes and hateful rhetoric, maybe don't take down the best site we have to do that.
The outrage on X/Twitter compared this DDoS attack to the burning of Alexandria and maybe that got to the hackers, because they eventually stopped harassing the Internet Archive and moved on to other targets more directly related to their agenda.
If you had tried to login to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) app a year ago today, not sure why you would, but it wouldn't have worked anyway. The group credit for the attacks on October 13th. However by the time it caught attention on Twitter, the AIPAC website & API outage was over within 12 hours later.
This lead to more taunting in the comments calling them out for "using DDoS as a service and calling themselves hackers" among other shocking accusations about the hackers. SN_Blackmeta seemingly took that criticism to heart and went after Israeli banks and financial companies. Neither attack lasted long and didn't get much attention from the media.
The group's final activity on X/Twitter on Nov 27, 2024 is the following comment.
An murder returns after he lose the war :) you are retarded
While this group seems to have either lost interest or capability to continue their illicit activities, I'm certain of one thing: there will be more hacktivists going too far, causing confusion and chaos as they attack sites people both love and loathe. To put it in words one hacker will understand:
An daily breach returns after company loses cyberwar :) they are retarded.
