"Fort Disco" Botnet Hustles onto the Stage

  • 8 August 2013
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Blog sites and content management systems should be on the lookout that they don't "get down tonight" due to a new botnet called "Fort Disco."
 


                    What 'Fort Disco' Might Look Like
 
ZDNet is reporting:
Internet security firm Arbor Networks reports that a new botnet, Fort Disco, is made up of over 25,000 Windows PCs and is targeting blog sites and content management systems (CMS)es. Once these are infected, they can then be used to spread the botnet's malware and to attack other systems.
 
Pummelling a website with a brute-force attack can be a tedious way to go about cracking a password, but with the force of thousands of WordPress and Joomla servers backing it up, this botnet has some pretty serious power behind it.  So far, the attacks originating from this botnet have been brute-force password cracking attacks aimed at other servers, but there is always the possibility that it could turn to DDos'ing to wreak even more havoc.  With 25,000 zombie computers doing its bidding, the botnet could direct enough traffic to a website that it could shut it down from sheer traffic overload. 
 
The full article is available here.

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