What would you call it? An attack on Google, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Sony, or Verizon as "retaliation" for cooperating with the US government, designed to p

What would you call it? An attack on Google, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Sony, or Verizon as "retaliation" for cooperating with the US government, designed to punish the corporation for performing their legal duty and to "scare" other corporations into not cooperating. Okay so no one's going to die, which makes it significantly different in scope, but if it's an attack on a company with the goal of inciting fear...