Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet

[Cody Robertson <cody () hawkhost com>]

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!
> >
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