Hunting FBI for Hacker Pro-Wikileaks
WASHINGTON, GooScript. - The FBI joined to hackers for hunting whos the crippled Paypal Network, after they stop processing payments for confidential Wikileaks , U.S. media reported on Friday (12/31/2010).
The 'Smoking Gun' Network broadcast about five-page statement under oath of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and broadcast the details of an operation launched by U.S. federal investigators in Europe, Canada and the United States itself as they hunted "Internet activists" who launch attacks "against companies that are considered as enemies, Wikileaks".
The attack early December, addressed to various companies including electronic payment networks Paypal, and credit cards Visa and Mastercard, which has detained or freeze accounts Wikileaks after the network broadcast a secret that thousands of sensitive telex U.S. State Department.
In mid-December, the FBI track down Internet protocol addresses to hunt down the hackers to Canada and then back to California, where the virtual server that handles one of the IP addresses used to launch an attack is located.
At around the same time, a separate investigation on the attack pro-Wikileaks by the German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) found that another command to launch denial of service attack against Paypal Internet has come from one IP address assigned to create a company based in Texas and accommodate many servers.
The FBI raided the company in Texas on December 16, according to information from the Smoking Gun - which uses the Freedom of Information request to obtain the materials from government and law enforcement sources.
During the invasion of the land-server in Texas, FBI agents reported copy two hardware inside a single server. "But court records did not specify what was found on the device, and also there is no information that leads to a suspect or, perhaps, an electronic trail that continues," the Smoking Gun.
The FBI investigation continues, and will be coordinated from the field office in California. The FBI agents could give a comment for this.
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