From Venture Beat:
Hackers have somehow infiltrated cat-GIF-meme-photo-sharing site Imgur to direct overwhelming volumes of traffic at 4chan, the freewheeling-forum that hosts some of the Web's darker conversations.
Naturally, this problem was uncovered over at Reddit. "When an Imgur image is loaded from /r/4chan, imgur loads a bunch of images from 4chan's content delivery network or 8chan (unclear at this point, might be both), which causes a DDoS to those sites."
Reddit thread which originally reported it here. From another thread on reddit:
"This isn't a DDOS. It's targeting 8chan users and leaving javascript code in their local storage that causes their browsers ping back to a command and control server each time they hit an 8chan page. Thus far the C&C server hasn't sent out any commands (or stopped issuing commands before this was discovered). Over the evening whoever authored this has been updating and changing their code. It only effects very specific imgur images/pages. Why is not yet known."
(Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday September 23 2015, @12:13PM
Sturgeon's Law in effect. :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday September 23 2015, @02:29PM
Sturgeon's Law is "90% of everything is crap", so this must be Sturgeon's Law adjusted for inflation.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 23 2015, @07:20PM
No, that's just math. 90% suck, 90% of the remaining 10% also, 90% of that 1% suck and so on...
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday September 27 2015, @01:50AM
Ahh, the compound interest of suck. Understandable.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh