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

[coretx]

The attack on the US servers started much earlier.
And probably has not ties with the recent attacks.


On Sep 15, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Glenn Kerbein wrote:

> 	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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