Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps

http://seclists.org/nanog/2010/Dec/1077

by mrud • 16 years ago

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rwwmike• 16 years ago

Interesting, I just looked into this the other day. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaksorg_is_back_up...

Just reached out to the owner of mirror.wikileaks.info

I think there's a lot of assumption going on here in terms of who is in charge of what and who's responsible...

iwwr• 16 years ago

None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - the very site we are warning about. The site data, disks, connections and visitor traffic, are all under the control of the Heihachi cybercrime gang. There are more than 40 criminal-run sites operating on the same IP address as wikileaks.info, including carder-elite.biz, h4ck3rz.biz, elite-crew.net, and bank phishes paypal-securitycenter.com and postbank-kontodirekt.com.

The drama never ends.

The way wikileaks mirrors work is that volunteers provide server space and access credentials, while wikileaks staff upload the content. The problem arises if that content is not digitally signed, or at least authenticated with a set of hashes (the webmasters may inject malware, or otherwise modify the content).

Still, until we see an official note on wikileaks.ch (or personal message from Assange) that wikileaks.info is a fraudulent impersonation, we should consider the content on the .info site in an official fashion.

Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps

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