It’s not unusual for developers and publishers to hold Ask Me Anything (AMA) discussions with fans, often taking to Twitch or Reddit. It’s another thing entirely when THQ Nordic Gmbh PR and marketing director Philipp Brock instead chose to utilise controversial website 8chan, a place infamous for its affiliations with …
Read More »Imgur vulnerability allowed links to DDOS 4Chan and 8Chan
This week, Imgur discovered a vulnerability in its system that made it possible for people to inject malicious code in to an image link from the site. These links were then used to leverage genuine user's browsers in order to send a DDOS attack out to the sites 4Chan and …
Read More »Hola speaks out on recent botnet accusations
Last week, it was revealed that one of the most popular VPN extensions for Google Chrome, Hola, had been caught out selling its user's bandwidth via a separate company in order to allow attackers to send DDOS attacks to other sites or services. At the time, it was 8Chan that …
Read More »Popular Chrome extension Hola sold your bandwidth for botnets
One of the most popular VPN extensions for Google Chrome, Hola, has been caught out selling its users' “idle resources”, like your bandwidth, via a separate company for botnet use. This means that users of Hola likely had their bandwidth sold for DDOS attacks. Hola was often used as a …
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