Last week persons unknown claiming to be female hackers posted on 8chan stating that they have begun a DDoS attack against infamous hate group Kiwi Farms. The posts linked to a rival trolling group. At roughly the same time there were a series of outages of several websites linked to 1776 Hosting, a controversial hosting company being set up by Kiwi Farms owner Joshua Conner Moon (also known as Null). Kiwi Farms and 1776 are controversial because of their owner’s calls for genocide, distribution of paedophilia content such as child rape stories and the actual murders of minors by a member of his board. Moon also runs a ‘novelty’ email service lolcow.email, which brought ‘novel’ situations to schools in his former home state of Florida such as mass murder threats.

The persons allegedly attacking Kiwi Farms would like us to think they look like this. Stock photo by Dreamstime.

On the rival group’s site itself however, members fiercely denied being responsible for the outages. Instead group members claimed Kiwi Farms members were trying to frame them. I have no direct knowledge of whether Moon’s sites are under attack or who (if anyone) is responsible. However, I am clear on the source of one hacking attack –
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