Anonymous strikes again this time targetting spanish consitutional court's website following the annoncement of Madrid's intention of using the article 155 of the constitution to abolish autonomy of the region.
The website of the spanish constitutional court was down this saturday after a DDoS attack launch by the anonymous collective. This attack follows the announcement of Madrid's intention of using the article 155 of the spanish constitution, which would allow them to destitute the entire government of catalonia.
The websites of the ministry of Economy, Development and Justice were taken down for hours as well. On Friday, the departement of Homeland security had issue a warning via social media that anonymous was preparing for massive campaign of cyberattacks.
The hacktivist anonymous have annonced a massive campaign of cyberattack tomorrow using the hashtag #OpCatalunya and #FreeCatalunya https://t.co/giRiL5e2Pr — DSN (@dsn) October 20, 2017
The anonymous collective also used twitter to advertise their attack:
And yes, Banca March of Spain full #DOWN #OpCatalunya #FreeCatalonia site: bancamarch.es New attacks are coming... #Anonymous https://t.co/rGZEo3KKts — Nama Tikure (@NamaTikure) October 21, 2017
Partido Popular de Espana http://www.pp.es You Have Been Hacked #TangoDown#OpCatalunya#AnonPlushttps://t.co/LE7gfWcvyg — anonplus (@AnonPlus_Info) October 21, 2017
Spain Ministry of Economy #TangoDown #OpCatalunya #FreeCatalonia Site: http://mineco.gob.es - DOWN #Anonymous #Operations — Nama Tikure (@NamaTikure) October 21, 2017
OpCatalunya started back on September 24 as a protest against Madrid attempt to prevent the referendum. The massive attack of this week seems to be just a start in the collective effort to support the referundum of Catalonia. Today, anonymous release an international request for support in which they state: "As a result of this repression and this regression towards the francoist dictatorship: in the name of all the Catalan independence and democrats, Anonymous Catalonia asks all the Anon of the world who are in favour of the freedom of expression, the democracy and the peaceful dialogue, to presist in the #FreeCatalonia operation until next Sunday 29 of October to protest against the deliberate measure the spanish governement has so far applied to the Catalan governement and people."