The UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is back online after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by LulzSec forced the agency to take their website offline yesterday.

A SOCA spokesman told BBC News that the agency had chosen to take its website offline to limit the impact on other clients hosted by their service provider, Connect Internet Solutions.

The agency – which is responsible for pro-active operations against serious and organised crime – was targeted as part of Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec), which was announced on Sunday. The top priority of the operation is to “steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments.”

With reference to its DDoS capabilities, LulzSec also added: “If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.”