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Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Imgur has been compromised by attackers looking for an opportunity to direct large volumes of traffic to 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.

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  1. Old news? by BlckAdder · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was patched yesterday.

  2. Re:Do over please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    4chan users actually know how to write, at least better than slashdot "editors". It's just that they add the "faggot" and "nigger" every 3 sentences.