How hackers tried to knock blacklivesmatter.com offline
by Cory Doctorow from on (#25949)
DBO writes, "A new report by Deflect Labs tracks the complex ways that hackers have sought to take down the Black Lives Matter website. The attacks, which relied on harvesting Wordpress sites, increased in sophistication and left a murky, unsavory trail by actors who did everything from try to extort the website to taking it down entirely." (more")