Anonymous Continues #OpIndia - Disables More Indian Websites ~ Blog O'Nerd

Yesterday, the famous hactivist group Anonymous launched #OpIndia to attack a number of known websites. OpIndia was launched by Anonymous against the internet censorship in India. Two weeks ago, a Chennai-based firm Copyright Labs succeeded to get a John Doe Order from Madras High court which ordered ISPs to block some known file sharing websites such as The Pirate Bay. Famous video sharing site Vimeo was also blocked along with Pastebin. Users of many private ISPs - notably Airtel and Reliance, were not able to visit these websites and were shown a message from the ISP that the website they are trying to visit is blocked as per Court orders.

Anonymous launched attacks on a number of Indian website against the Indian censorship. Yesterday, a Twitter account associated with Anonymous - @opindia_revenge posted updates on targeted websites. The targets included - Department of Telecom website - www.dot.gov.in, Supreme Court of India's website - www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in, All India Congress Committee's website - www.aicc.org.in and Copyright Labs website - www.copyrightlabs.in.

Now Anonymous has continued the attacks on other websites. Anonymous targeted more websites last night. The attacked websites included Reliance Big Entertainment's website - www.rbe.co.in, Indian Youth Congress' website www.iyc.in, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) website www.cert-in.org.in , Kapil Sibal's website - www.kapilsibalmp.com, Delhi Government's website - www.delhi.gov.in and Loksabha website - www.loksabha.nic.in.

The Twitter account @opindia_revenge kept updating about the latest attacks throughout the day.

We have a #TANGODOWN for rbe.co.in
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

#TANGODOWN -->> iyc.in still down
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

#TangoDown --> kapilsibalmp.com XD
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

Currently downIt's not just you! loksabha.nic.in looks down from here.
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

Indeed. We alll are pretty much exhausted for the day. Taking down rbe.co.in was fun.loksabha.nic.in going up and down
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

Anonymous's #OpIndia started receiving support from Indians for their operations. The @opindia_revenge's follower base kept increasing throughout the day. People thanked them for launching the operations and also ask them to target other websites.

The @opindia_revenge account suggested that the attacks will continue and they have prepared their target list. They have planned to attack some "major" websites.

Preparing a target list for tomorrow. Gotta take down major targets.
— opindia (@opindia_revenge) May 18, 2012

At the time of writing this, many of the attacked websites remained down. It is unclear if this move will change the Government behavior at all, but we could keep a hope to get a response from the targeted websites, IPSs and the Government itself.

Keep in touch for more updates.

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