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from the another-reason-to-turn-off-javascript dept.
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: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday September 23 2015, @06:05PM
And also breaks 99% of the web that 99% of the population uses.
I find very little ever broken by NoScript, and I can't ever claim that for sure as it is just one layer of my protection. Sites may load a little less immediately and force more user interaction to do so, but they load.