What Impact, if Any, Does Killnet Have?

On Oct. 4, a cryptic message first appeared in the Telegram forum We Are Killnet, hosted by the pro-Russian hacktivist collective Killnet, and spread quickly across Twitter. The message roughly translates to: “Weather forecast for 7 days! 14:00 USA—A L4 level flood is expected throughout the United States. 16:00 USA—All Tax web resources are experiencing difficulties in performance.” A clever play on words, the message implied that Killnet was planning a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks—also called floods—against U.S. government websites over a 72-hour time period. The group dubbed its operation “USA Offline” and paired its cy

[…]
Content was cut in order to protect the source.Please visit the source for the rest of the article.