Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/07/gawker_currentl.php

by jsm386 • 16 years ago

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jsm386• 16 years ago

fyi - it seems like they are back up...for now.

thomasreggi• 16 years ago

What does 4chan actually do to "attack" a site?

mxavier• 16 years ago

They usually use a tool called the "Low Orbital Ion Cannon" which is really just a DDoS app with a silly GUI slapped on top of it.

lpgauth2• 16 years ago

I have to admit that's a pretty funny name for a DDoS client.

s810• 16 years ago

You're partially right..

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Denial_of_Service

also, there are irc servers that people set up for different events, but that's getting more into the chanology side of it.

pinksoda2• 16 years ago

I don't have any respect for people that use Windows-based attack tools, not that I respected 4chan anyways. Windows limits parallel connections, making it pretty much useless for "packeting".

4chan is full of a bunch of 12 year old script kiddies. They don't even know what a buffer overflow is and they think HTML is a programming language.

m4wk3r• 16 years ago

run trojan infected ddos clients

ambiate• 16 years ago

The last time I visisted, ~20% of the posts on /b/ were malware, botnets, and various other goodies to probe. 4chan users basically use their own community to attack sites. There's self-servicing ddos web apps/downloads and the infected, uneducated browsers of the site. Its actually quite ironic to see an user utilize their own internet connection in an organized DDOS, eh?

Its not too far-fetched too imagine a certain percentage of their community also has some type of access to botnets to assist in attacks.. I mean that's what they do, sometimes, so, why not be prepared?

mhd• 16 years ago

Shouldn't that by "...under successful attack by 4chan users" ("under attack by anonymous" isn't journalistic enough, even for Village Voice)? I don't think "4chan" the site officially endorses the attack.

Is this because of gawker's criticism of the "You don goofed?" affair? Jessi Slaughter, the face that launched a thousand rootkits.

LeDeMedAfr• 16 years ago

Any suggested cleaners/scans for rootkit infection or zombie trojan?

Vivtek2• 16 years ago

Y'know, back in prehistory when we started speculating about cyberwar, I never really anticipated the, I don't know, the sordidness of a group of anonymized schoolyard bullies being totally schooled by an 11-year-old girl, then using what in prehistoric terms would basically be magic to find her somewhere in the world, then targeting a gossip site in utter flaming outrage that this was noticed and commented on.

Weren't we supposed to be flying PanAm to the space station by now and making vidphone calls to important business clients? I seem to have gotten the wrong future.

mynameishere• 16 years ago

You've never made a vidphone call?

Vivtek2• 16 years ago

Not from the space station, dammit.

coderdude• 16 years ago

They're basically dealing with a bunch of 17-and-under kids who think like this (quoted from the link): "4 chan it's not about hacking it's about the fact that Gawker begged for this fight for 3 or 4 days. They know who we are. They know our numbers. Or rather, evidently they didn't. They called us out and we took them up on it after being the bigger man. How is that pussy? They begged for it. We took the high road. Then they just pushed a bit too far. You fuck with the bull you get the horns."

Somehow they can't see how lame this makes them look? They think they're some kind of force to be reckoned with and not just a bunch of lame script kiddies, but they never come off as the former and always as the latter.

http://a33.idata.over-blog.com/3/20/76/31/Epic_fail_guy1.gif

DeusExMachina• 16 years ago

I sometimes browse the /b/ board on 4chan. I find it a good "shock" to know at what lows human beings can go. But I would not advise it, because it's something for people with a strong stomach.

What I learnt is that they absolutely don't care how lame they look. It's a strange subculture, where everybody insults everyone, hating everything and being as mean as they can be. But still, in cases like this one, they manage to come up as a whole in the name of Anonymous.

I think this is a fertile ground for some psychological and sociological study.

Gawker Media Currently Under Successful Attack by 4chan

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