Pill Gang Used Microsoft's Network in Attack on KrebsOnSecurity.com
Pill Gang Used Microsoft?s Network in Attack on KrebsOnSecurity.com
Oct 14, 2010, 19 :03 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1001 reads)
(Other stories by Brian Krebs)
"An organized cyber crime gang known for aggressively pushing male enhancement drugs and other knockoff pharmaceuticals used Internet addresses belonging to Microsoft as part of a massive denial-of-service attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com late last month.
"The attack on my Web site happened on Sept. 23, roughly 24 hours after I published a story about a criminal online service that brazenly sold stolen credit card numbers for less than $2 each (see: I?ll Take Two MasterCards and a Visa, Please). That story got picked up by BoingBoing, Gizmodo, NPR and a variety of other sites, public attention that no doubt played a part in the near-immediate suspension of that criminal Web site.
"At first, it wasn?t clear what was behind the attack, which at one point caused a flood of traffic averaging 2.3 gigabits of junk data per second (see graph above)."
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