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Netsky attacks: Four sites down, one to go

Submitted by Karthik on 8 April, 2004 - 10:45

ZDNet is carrying a short update on the state of the Netsky DDOS attacks which were scheduled to go off today.

Mikko Hyppönen said Netsky's authors seemed to have learnt a lesson from the mistakes made by the author of the Blaster worm, which last summer launched a massive DDoS attack on Microsoft's Windows Update Web site. However, unlike Netsky, Blaster attacked the lesser-used Web address: "Blaster was stupid -- it attacked the Web site that most people would not use. It only attacked http://windowsupdate.com, not www.windowsupdate.com. Netsky is attacking the address that most people would surf to," he said.

I bet a few anti-RIAA/MPAA stories are going to crop up tomorrow :P