A top secret presentation by GCHQ at a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV shows that the hitherto unknown GCHQ Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group launched a DDoS attack (called Rolling Thunder) on the IRC communications channels used by Anonymous and LulzSec.


https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gchq-used-ddos-attack-on-anonymous-communications/
A top secret presentation by GCHQ at a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV shows that the hitherto unknown GCHQ Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group launched a DDoS attack (called Rolling Thunder) on the IRC communications channels used by Anonymous and LulzSec.
Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gchq-used-ddos-attack-on-anonymous-communications/

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