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

[Jay Ashworth]

FYI.  Am I the only person just hearing about this?

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> 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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