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Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Apr 12 23:03:02 2013
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130413013121.GB9298@vortex.com>
Cc: outages-discussion <outages-discussion@outages.org>
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FYI. Am I the only person just hearing about this?
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> 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--
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