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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday September 23 2015, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
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."

Update: Newer articles.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by number6 on Wednesday September 23 2015, @06:51PM

    by number6 (1831) on Wednesday September 23 2015, @06:51PM (#240642) Journal

    Dear Cockbreath, If you want post as AC and click 'Reply' just to post one word... you can GO AND GET FUCKED !!!!

    I was 100% sincere in trying to post something which may be useful to not only the parent but anybody who may stumble upon this thread one day.
    AND, I stopped my life for 20 minutes to format all those words in that post and to preview multiple times before posting.

    But you already knew all that didn't you Cockbreath !!

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