Would it be moral to launch a cyberattack on them

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A DDoS attack, or Distributed Denial of Service, is a relatively easy and yet fairly powerful cyberattack. Imagine you are working on sorting a deck of cards as your primary task. Every time I say "Hello" to you, you have to stop sorting the deck and say "Hello" back. DDoSing is essentially when you bombard the server with so many "Hello" messages that it spends all its time responding to you, and can't get anything done as a result.

Now, DDoSing a youtuber or company just trying to make an honest living seems like it would clearly be ethically bad. But what if you had someone who was just awful (perhaps taking pictures of suicides in a Japanese forest and laughing at them), or a company that was totally unethical in how it conducts its business. In that case, would it be moral to launch a cyberattack on them? Or is it still wrong because it's a cyber-attack? Please explain your reasoning with Kantianism and Utilitarianism theory.

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