#opsony and #opmegaupload
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1From: Reitinger, Philip
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:39 PM
To: Rice, Carolyn, Sony Music; Soulia, Sheila; bblank (@soe)
Cc: Teo, Soon Yam; '[email protected]'; Torre, David; Beckmann, Christoph;
Williams, Michael T (Law); '[email protected]'; '[email protected]';
Weil, Leah; Traymore, Anthony (Legal); Takei, Natsuko; Gardner, Thomas;
'[email protected]'; Spaltro, Jason; '[email protected]';
Delorenzo, Mark (SGS); Schwab, Ray; McLaughlin, Bob; Bernard, Stevan; Harkins, Jason;
Leak, Wade, Sony Music; Russell, Riley (SCEA); Sterner, Charles; Podorowsky, Gary;
Marong, Guy; Matsumoto, Keiichi; Shigenari, Masanobu; Seligman, Nicole; Ciesla, John;
Wahlin, Brett
Subject: PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL - threat data Jan 20
Attachments: EAS
Privileged and Confidential
Please see the attached threat report, and closehold. Here are two paragraphs
Traffic was MASSIVE today with regard (indirectly) to SOPA. After the community heard that Megaupload (a file repository and sharing site) had been taken down and its employees arrested by the Department of Justice, Anonymous formed another operation named #opmegaupload. The formation of this operation caused a temporary loss of focus on #opsony, but the channel number has since doubled in population as people returned to it to show their support. There were thousands of tweets, pastebin pastes dedicated to the new preferred DDOS tool of Anonymous (HOIC) configuration files, and the formation of the IRC channel which had a huge number (1366) people in it.
ICG believes that although #opmegaupload has drawn some attention away from #opsony, in the end Sony should be MORE vigilant than ever. The operations have caused a renewed interest in the fight against SOPA and its supporters and drawn a massive amount of new people into the IRC channels who, if nothing else, are capable of launching massive DDOS attacks against Sony. In DDOS attacks launched today, the combined speed of the attacks aimed at the MPAA and others was over 9000Mbps. Also because of the massive amounts of DDOS traffic that could be generated, it could be tremendously easier to slip a skilled attacker in unnoticed due to the amount of traffic.
phil
Attachments: SONY SPOTREP 01202012.pdf (1053435 Bytes)