Dolphin Killing Season Brings New Waves of Anonymous DDoS Attacks

Hacktivists still left in the once mighty Anonymous hacker collective have restarted DDoS attacks on Japanese institutions as part of their ancient OpKillingBay campaign.

According to Japanese local media, the attacks started on September 3, just after the whale and dolphin hunting season opened in Japan.

#OpKillingBay not going away

OpKillingBay is an Anonymous hacktivism campaign that began in the early 2010s, after the release of The Cove documentary that exposed the gruesome and bloody dolphin hunts that took place in some cities around Japan.

Ever since then, Anonymous hackers have been a nuisance for Japanese authorities, bombarding websites with DDoS attacks, and defacing government portals.

In most of these attacks, hackers targeted Japanese government websites, and sometimes the government portals of other nations, such as Denmark and Iceland, who also engage ...