A real-time performance graph of 4chan following DDoS attacks, as posted on Netcraft
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Community site 4chan (www.4chan.org) suffered another distributed denial of service attack Monday, according to a report by Web analytics firm Netcraft.
Many of the individuals in pro-WikiLeaks hackers group Anonymous are also members of 4chan’s boards.
Despite this, there has been no evidence that the current attack is connected to any of the previous DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous.
Shortly after the attack occurred, the community site posted an update on status.4chan.org that said, “Another day, another DDoS! Right on the eve of /b/’s 300 millionth post.”
4Chan was hit with a similar attack on December 29 that kept the site offline for nearly 24 hours.
Shortly after the attack the status page read, “We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.–an exclusive club!”
This, of course, was a satirical reference to the many payment companies that Anonymous had previously attacked in December after they suspended their customer accounts with WikiLeaks.
Netcraft has posted the real-time performance graphs for websites tied to the WikiLeaks and Anonymous attacks.
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