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WordPress Pingback Feature Used for DDoS Attack in Norway

10
Jul
2014

This weeks disruption of the online services of numerous companies in Norways financial sector was possible because of the pingback feature in the WordPress platform. A group of hackers claiming to be part of the Anonymous Norway hacktivist outfit, deployed on Tuesday, July 8, a distributed denial-of-service attack against the online services of multiple Norwegian companies, most of them connected to the financial sector. According to sources familiar to the matte…

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