Shortly after the controversial Innocence of Muslims movie appeared on YouTube, hackers of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters group started launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the website of United States financial institutions in an effort to convince US authorities to order its removal.
The websites of tens of banks and credit unions were attacked, but to no avail. YouTube refused to remove the movie, arguing that only the copyright holder…
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