Posted on 03/14/2016 2:36:52 PM PDT by markomalley
Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective have vowed to relaunch cyber-operations against US presidential candidate Donald Trump from 1 April. They threaten to 'dismantle his campaign' by taking his election websites offline in a large-scale and orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
In December 2015, Anonymous officially 'declared war' on Trump after a radical speech in which he said Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. The operation at the time resulted in a number of websites being targeted by hackers, but failed to have lasting impact.
A new video statement has been posted to YouTube which claims the 'loyalists and veterans' of Anonymous have decided to ramp up cyber-operations against Trump – dubbed #OpTrump – on a far larger scale than ever before.
"Dear Donald Trump, we have been watching you for a long time and what we see is deeply disturbing. Your inconsistent and hateful campaign has not only shocked the United States of America [but] you have shocked the entire planet with your appalling actions and ideas. You say what your audience wants to hear but in reality you don't stand for anything except for your personal greed and power."
The video, which features the traditional Guy Fawkes mask-wearing spokesperson speaking directly to camera, called the operation a "call to arms" for hacktivists across the globe.
"We need you to shut down his websites, to research and expose what he doesn't want the public to know. We need to dismantle his campaign and sabotage his brand. We are encouraging every able person with a computer to participate in this operation. This is not a warning, this is a declaration of total war. Donald Trump – it is too late to expect us."
In a separate written message posted online, Anonymous listed a number of websites chosen to be the initial targets in the attack including trump.com, donaldjtrump.com and trumphotelcollection.com.
Alongside these chosen targets, the post lists a slew of unverified personal information purporting to belong to Donald Trump, including a social security number, personal phone number and the contact details of his agent and legal representation.
This is not the first time a hacking group has attempted to take on Donald Trump. In January 2016 a separate group called the New World Hackers carried out multiple DDoS attacks on his official election campaign website – effectively taking it offline for a short period of time. Recently, Anonymous leaked messages from his phone's voicemail account which included personal communications from journalists, sports stars and boxing promotors.
Anonymous, which is a loose collective of hacktivists, routinely engages high-profile targets as part of its cyber-campaigns. Previous subjects have included the Islamic State (IS), the Vatican and most recently the Turkish government.
“We declared war a couple of months ago, but now we really mean it!”
By April 1, he’ll be the nominee.
Just more votes for Trump if they do this crap. People are tired of this nonsense.
Just more votes for Trump if they do this crap. People are tired of this nonsense.
Welcome to the USSA comrades......free speech is hereby declared obsolete.....unless you belong to left...
wish they’d do something constructive, like hack the gummint site that dispenses free Skittles or something
Betcha a high percentage of”Anonymous” hackers own prayer rugs.
Trump must be the right one to fix our country... I’ve never seen anything like what is trying to stop him. From all sides.. from all types.. and it goes to show how much ignorance is in the population. They believe the crap and don’t try to find the truth for themselves.
You’d think sensible people would see the likes of ayres at the Chicago riots and know it was cooked. You’d think if bernie and hillary were in it, they’d know it was fixed/organized and paid for by the extreme left. They dismiss hillary’s killing spree in Benghazi... they dismiss the fact bernie was a freeloader half his life... they dismiss the left entirely... and castigate the ones trying to save their ever lovin’ hides.
When I see a 20 yr old kid who I know does not know anything past what she/he hears via walking into a store where the news is on... and then they think they know all they need to know about who Trump is...I’d like to ban them from being able to vote. Then I’d like to skin their hides for being so absolutely willfully dumb.
Also, juan was on the 5 and lying as usual... (only watched 2 minutes of it)... lying has become as normal for them, as anything they do all day. I hate.. absolutely HATE lying... they do it better than the truth.
I’m so sick of these fags. I guess since they declared mission sccomplished on isis’ online presence, they have time to turn their attention to trump.
Anonymous was at the Dayton rally armed with assault rifles. I have pics of them posted here waving their flag and brandishing an AR15 and a suppressed assault rifle of some sort.
Would not it be wonderful to form a group called “Hackers 4 Trump”, and cyber-beat the snot out of these Anonymous punks?
Why aren’t they going after guys like Romney who had his chance and now won’t go away.
send this to Trump- I love Hackers 4 Trump.
I smell rats, here. Because they try to be anonymous, lots of scoundrels pretend to “represent” Anonymous.
Timeline of events associated with Anonymous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_associated_with_Anonymous
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