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

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Nope, heard about it on Slashdot.

(nanog removed since I'm not subscribed there)

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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> FYI.  Am I the only person just hearing about this?
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" <privacy at 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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