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September 24, 2015 12:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ANpftpezoYo/imgur-exploited-to-channel-botnet-attacks-at-4chan
Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan
An anonymous reader writes: Imgur has been compromised by attackers looking for an opportunity to direct large volumes of traffic 4chan. A Reddit thread explains that "when an Imgur image is loaded from /r/4chan [...] imgur loads a bunch of images from 8chan, which causes a DDoS to those sites." Meaning that if a user clicks an Imgur link on /r/4chan, it automatically makes around "500 requests" for one image from imageboard 4chan.org/8chan.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ANpftpezoYo/imgur-exploited-to-channel-botnet-attacks-at-4chan
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