Anonymous has apparently retaliated against the arrest of LulzSec hackers by taking down Panda Security's website.
Yesterday, US agents arrested hackers associated with Anonymous splinter group LulzSec, after one of the group's central figures turned witness for the FBI after an arrest last year.
“This is devastating to the organisation,” an FBI official said, according to Fox News. “We’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.”
While it remains to be seen whether the arrests have destroyed LulzSec, Anonymous hackers made it clear they were still at work, knocking a collection of Panda Security's websites offline, and posting their own message on one.
We probably won’t see any more hacks as the ones LulzSec had been perpetrating, and Anonymous will only use their known childish tactic of DDoS using their LOIC tool
The hackers accused Panda Security of working with law enforcement officials. "They helped to jail 25 Anonymous in different countries and they were actively participating in our IRC channels trying to dox many others," the message posted on a downed Panda site claimed.
While the main Panda website had recovered at the time of writing, parts of it were still offline. "We can say that an external server that hosted some subdomains was attacked, that’s why the main site of Panda has not been defaced," a Panda spokesman told PC Pro. "All operations (updates, cloud, etc) are working as usual, as they are not related to this server."
"The attacked server has been shutdown to study how the attack has been performed," he added.
Before the hack, Panda's technical director Luis Corrons posted a short blog post titled "where is the Lulz now", welcoming the arrests as "good news" - and apparently correctly predicting it wasn't the end of Anonymous, if not its tactics.
"Will this mean the end of Anonymous? No. It will mean the end of LulzSec, but Anonymous existed before LulzSec and will continue existing," he wrote. "However we probably won’t see any more hacks as the ones LulzSec had been perpetrating, and Anonymous will only use their known childish tactic of DDoS using their LOIC tool."
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