[pp.int.general] DDoS Attacks on Pirate Party Websites.

[Glenn Kerbein]

	We have had some downtime for a while now, and we are restoring
portions of our site. Some random Romanian hackers managed to exploit an
old PHP include (via phpmyadmin [which was installed for no particular
reason]).  They used the vector to span an Perl script to have the
server join a botnet; the ISP managed to catch it before it was too late
and firewall our vserver.
	It was a non-specific targeting attack, as they found and used
identical vectors across multiple hosts.
	We will have a press release up soon, hopefully.

coretx wrote:
> 
> Many Pirate Party Websites are receiving DDOS attacks.
> Please send you system logs. Possible sources of the attack etc.
> towards laurent.lebesnerais at pp-international.net
> <mailto:laurent.lebesnerais at pp-international.net>
> Some people are pointing their fingers at anti piracy company's. Let's
> find out if it is true !
> 
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Glenn "Channel6" Kerbein
United States Pirate Party
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