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This threat comes after The Herald Online, yesterday, suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack allegedly carried out by the same group.
A DDoS attack is a form of hacker attack against a website designed to consume all of a website’s resources to the point a website becomes unavailable to ordinary visitors trying to access it.
The Herald Online servers were being flooded with traffic which kept them going online and offline. The interruption, however, lasted for a few minutes.
Africa Anonymous, earlier Wednesday, claimed responsibility for the attack on IOL South Africa. The organisation was accused of publishing stories in support of President Mugabe.
The group is using Twitter to send out threats to the perceived “enemies of human rights”.
“In 5 minutes http://www.zimra.co.zw/ will be live again. We have decided to go after a bigger target after this, watch this space.
“In 43 minutes time we will be taking down the Zimbabwe Ministry of Defense http://www.mod.gov.zw Expect us #anonymous #africa #zimbabwe” read some of their tweets.
The attack on the Herald online website came a few hours after the Independent Newspapers of South Africa website also came under attack from an organisation that claimed it did it because of the media group’s alleged support of President Mugabe. The attack led to Independent Newspaper’s internet and e-mail systems going down at 11am. According to IOL editor Alastair Otter, the system crashed because of a denial of service (DoS) attack, an attack in which servers are flooded by a huge volume of traffic.
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