Operation Payback
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This raid involves legal BS (i.e., Jews) Page edits are therefor anonymous (it was all Salman Rushdie) |
OPPCC
| Date | December 2010 |
| Target | Primary: Visa; Secondary: Mastercard |
| Casus belli | Butthurt Pussies |
| Result | n/a |
| IRC | irc.tsukihi.me #operationapp |
| /i/ 1 | RockStarArmy |
| /i/ 2 |
The cyber-attackers who took Mastercard.com down earlier today just announced plans to take Visa.com down. They say their attack will commence in one hour. This is, of course, revenge for both credit card companies shutting off donations to Wikileaks. These are all part of Operation Payback, a coordinated attack on anti-piracy groups and others that started three months ago
What led up to this
With Wikileaks release of the U.S. Diplomatic Cables, pressure from governmental agencies was used to help remove any finacial support for Wikileaks. Mastercard Europe and Visa International withdrew support and payment processes for accounts owned by Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange.
What can you do?
- 1. Edit this article
- 2. Post targets in the Targets Sections
- 3. GET BEHIND A PROXY.
- 4. ????
- 5. PROFIT
Strategies
Tools: Low Orbit Ion Cannon
Auto-attacking script base on slowloris (Linux only)
Modified LOIC: http://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/downloads
Criticisms and Suggestions
Hello there fellow anon. I'm just a lowly business major passing by, giving a few tips here and there on what would really hurt for Mastercard and Visa.
The Concept of Goodwill and Brand Image
Due to the fact that attacking tangible assets would be extremely difficult given the scale and scope of these corporate giants, it would be better to focus on attacking GOODWILL. The glorious thing about GOODWILL is that it is pretty much the intangible assets of this firm.
Intangible assets consists of BRAND IMAGE, CUSTOMER RELATIONS, CLIENT RELATIONS, and jazz like that.
Quoting from page 78 of the PDF of their annual report: http://brofi.st/u/http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/annual_report/mastercard_annual_report_2009.pdf
The net carrying value of goodwill and intangible assets, excluding capitalized software, was $539 million, including $209 million of unamortizable customer relationships, as of December 31, 2009.
That $209 million is a lot of moolah. It should be simple. Just defeat their brand image. This can be done easily by simply REBRANDING Mastercard in such a manner that it means the exact opposite of what people currently think of it as. All they have is a marketing department that deals with commercials and advertisements. We on the otherhand have the capability to virally market Mastercard and Visa in such a manner that it would degrade the brand image they've built up for so long within a month. It has to be a witty and focused message (one message per brand) that sticks with the psyche of the population. This will require propaganda on our part for the purpose of PsyOPs.
You are DDOSing the wrong thing
You all seem to be targetting the wrong thing. What needs to be found are the IP addresses of the servers which deal with customer transactions. Shut that down (via DDOS perhaps) and you've shut down the entire operation of Visa and Mastercard within the region to which the IP addresses correspond with. And so, focus on the big commercial cities of the world: New York City, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Toronto, Melbourne, etc.
If that's a no-go, then focus on their
1. Online Log-In services for clients and customers: Mastercard: http://brofi.st/u/https://mol.mastercard.net/mol/molbe/public/login/home.jsp
Visa: http://brofi.st/u/http://www.visaonline.com/
2. The Mastercard Marketplace: http://brofi.st/u/http://marketplace.mastercard.com/privacy/index/uSource/MCF10
3. Corporate Information Pages Visa: http://brofi.st/u/http://corporate.visa.com/index.shtml
Mastercard: http://brofi.st/u/http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/index.html
Make it a bitch and a half to deal with Visa and Mastercard on part of the customer. If it is made that the customer is wholly incapable with dealing with mastercard or visa, then you have won half of the game.
The other half of the game is won from getting investors to sell Mastercard and Visa stocks en masse.
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Targets
Primary: Visa. Secondary: Mastercard
People
MAIN TARGET:
- Mark Daryl Rasch This is the guy who hooked up Adrian Lamo with the spooks to get Bradley Manning arrested as the Wikileaks source. Read the background here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012999-281.html?tag=mncol;txt Personal Information
- White, Caucasian, Asiatic Indian, Arab
- Born 08/02/1958 (Age 52)
- Possible spouse: Jodie Leve Rasch
- Home: 1-301-263-2777
- Office:
- Fax:
- Advisor at Security Awareness Company, SCIPP International, InfowarCon
- Principal at Secure IT Experts
- Board of Advisors at SCIPP International (the Security Awareness Certification Company)
- 7919 Springer Rd, Bethseda, Maryland, USA, 20814 (http://goo.gl/maps/e4oy)
- Gina Accordino MasterCard Worldwide Vice President and Counsel gina_accordino@mastercard.com
- Randi Adelstein MasterCard Worldwide Vice President and Senior Counsel randi_adelstein@mastercard.com
- Sam Alkhalaf MasterCard Worldwide Senior Vice President-Technology and Strategic Architect sam.alkhalaf@mastercard.com
- Jean Altz MasterCard Worldwide Vice President-Corporate Commun jean_altz@mastercard.com
- John Ambrose MasterCard Worldwide Senior Vice President john_ambrose@mastercard.com
- Kim Annick-Mitchell MasterCard Worldwide Vice President of Brand Building-Latin America kim_annick-mitchell@mastercard.com
- Jessica Antle MasterCard Worldwide Director Global Communications and Corporate Public Relations jessica_antle@mastercard.com
Results
[1] LA Times article. Who the hell is "the Jester"?
[2] BBC News Article
[3] CNN News Article
[4] CNN News Broadcast
[5] Yahoo News Article
[6] Huffington Post Article
[7] CTV News Broadcast
Leaks
Mastercard Number Leaked: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=u783eBzc (taken down)
