4Chan hit with DDoS attack, Lulzsec accused

4Chan hit with DDoS attack, Lulzsec accused

www.thinq.co.uk

Update, 14:58 GMT: 4Chan is now accessible, but it's incredibly slow. It seems that the DDoS is continuing.
Imageboard 4Chan has been down by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack - and some fingers are pointing at the hacking group Lulzsec. The Anons, it seems, are getting a taste of their own medicine.
The announcement came from the official 4Chan twitter, with it also pointing users towards the status page to provide updates on the attack.

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4chan.org, a popular image board and home to the roots of Anonymous is under DDoS attack. The reports of Lulzsec are as of yet unconfirmed.

Lulzsec has been responsible for many DDoS attacks, defacements, and other malicious activities against the FBI, Nintendo, the CIA website, and others. Looks like 4chan was finally hit.

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Anonymous Wiki

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an international hacking group, spread through the Internet, initiating active civil disobedience, while attempting to maintain anonymity. Originating in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, the term refers to the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, chaotic, global brain.[2] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.[3]

Oh this is cool, i can imagine the trolls flooding the net, so i guess every mod should be alert as its sure to spill over into here.

While its not impossible that LulzSec are behind this attack it wouldn't surprise me if this was coming from one of Anons own crew. There have been many proposed #OP's that have not been fully supported by the Anon majority over the last few months (I think there were at least 3 on Nov 5th alone) so this might be someone trying to get back at the community for making them look stupid by not backing their plan.

reply to post by PhoenixOD


That is a very distinct possibility.

The community isn't exactly tight knit.

So, the arm pit of the Internet was attacked by a group of hackers that could very well be be one script kiddy in his basement?

I don't know how reliable this is, but if its true, then it looks as if lulzsec is claiming responsibility for the DDOS attack. I was reading about the attack when I stumbled across this link to a pastebin page, sporting the lulzsec ship and a message from lulzsec about the attack itself.
Link

I thought lulzsec mostly meddled in security affairs, but then again, they have been known to have a bit of a rivalry, so to speak, with anons. I could believe that it was indeed lulzsec. The whole thing is kind of stupid, in my opinion. What does taking down 4chan with a DDOS attack accomplish?

reply to post by projectvxn

Someone posted in another anonymous thread about how they were attacking a man who helped set up the anonymous network they use, thinking he might be a child pornographer or something. The guy under attack made it clear that he was only responsible for setting up the network and he couldn't control what people used it for, and after all, anonymous was using the same network!

So I think anonymous got a little out of control and attacked the wrong people and probably pissed some people off in the process, but that's just a guess. I suppose it could be one of their own too.

Here's the site status as of when I just checked it:

status.4chan.org...
* Front page > UP
* Boards > DOWN
* Post images > UP
* Static files > DOWN
* Posting > UP
* Rapidsearch > UP
* Discussion > UP

They just might have the skillset to figure out where this attack is coming from, but if it's zombie computers in China, there's not much they can do about it in the short term.

I thought it was a bunch of hipster scum from Tumblr. I've read a few different accounts of what's happened. 4chan getting knocked offline isn't exactly uncommon. Amusing though. Hurr durr legion.

reply to post by Arbitrageur


I'm still getting 504 errors on all pages.

Still nothing.

Okay, someone needs to write and post a playbook here. I'm losing all track of the players and which side they're on in relation to each other. I know Lulz and Anon started coming into the public eye as enemies earlier this year, but then word seemed to indicate Lulz was fading back....others seemed to imply that Lulz and Anon had some kind of truce for mutual aid and effort.

Now it's being suggested they are back at war. It doesn't help of course that both groups are just text titles on a page and no one knows WHO really is in either one...but I'd just settle for a fairly clear picture of loyalties and opponents from each group out toward the rest of the world. Even general terms on that would help.

So....Playbook anyone? Just a pamphlet version maybe?

reply to post by projectvxn


I can kind of get through. After a few mins It comes up with a text only page that says

UDP packet flood on port 80 is being reported on status.4chan.org...

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


Lulzsec belittled Anonymous for lacking any basic skills and being fairly inept. They soon joined forces for awhile. Lulzsec faded into obscurity. Lulzsec may have gotten bored and decided to DDoS 4chan. I still think it was people from Tumblr, or at least that's what I heard last. While 4chan and Anonymous kind of go hand in hand, an attack on 4chan is not necessarily an attack on Anonymous. I'm trying to think of an example here... K Anonymous = Conspiracy Theorist, ATS = 4chan. Attacking ATS would not be an attack on all conspiracy theorists necessarily. Most would just interpret it that way.

reply to post by Domo1


I seriously hope Lulzsec doesn't look to ATS as it's next target.

Originally posted by projectvxn

4chan.org, a popular image board and home to the roots of Anonymous is under DDoS attack. The reports of Lulzsec are as of yet unconfirmed.

Well, they did say they were gonna take down child porn sites, guess they stick to their word.

About time someone took that trash down. Death to the pedo-bear!

moot's twitter account

reply to post by woogleuk


Lulzsec isn't the same group of people.

Lulzsec would just as soon flood a page with child porn, for the "lulz".

reply to post by woogleuk


4chan is not a child porn site. There are a ton of boards there. I greatly enjoy a few of them. So do millions of other people. Just because a few jackasses post CP threads on occasion does not mean a site is a child porn lair.