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Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet
From: Cody Robertson <cody () hawkhost com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:11:08 -0400
We're seeing heavy amounts of traffic / attacks as well - it's definitely not isolated to a single provider / range.
There are articles from HostGator, CloudFlare, Techcrunch and several others.
http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/ http://blog.cloudflare.com/patching-the-internet-fixing-the-wordpress-br http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/12/hackers-point-large-botnet-at-wordpress-sites-to-steal-admin-passwords-and-gain-server-access/ On 04/12/2013 11:02 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
FYI. Am I the only person just hearing about this? ----- Forwarded Message -----From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" <privacy () vortex com> Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet http://j.mp/ZRZksL (ars technica) "The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers from at least three Web hosting services reported. At least one company warned that the attackers may be in the process of building a "botnet" of infected computers that's vastly stronger and more destructive than those available today. That's because the servers have bandwidth connections that that are typically tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times faster than botnets made of infected machines in homes and small businesses." - - - Up in the Net! It's a bug! It's a phish! It's SUPER-botnet! --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren () vortex com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet Jay Ashworth (Apr 12)
- Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet Cody Robertson (Apr 12)
- Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet Greg Stewart (Apr 12)