A new group of hacktivists associated with the AntiSec movement claim to have staged a major DDoS attack against MasterCard, apparently in connection with the long-running controversy over the removal of card processing facilities for the WikiLeaks group.
Infosecurity.Com - The AntiSec movement was one of the last public cause statements issued by the LulzSec hacktivist group before it disbanded over the weekend, Infosecurity notes.
MasterCard isn't commenting on the DDoS attack, but some news wire reports suggest that access to the site was intermittent in some areas of the world, notably the US and UK, for several hours yesterday.
What is interesting, however, is that the site was accessible in some areas of Europe when it was apparently being DDoS-ed in the US and UK, suggesting that the IP route diversification that MasterCard said it was deploying following previous attacks may have worked. More
