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Hundreds of websites including the CIA and the FBI are being hit by a botnet which floods them with junk data.
Other victims include Microsoft, Google, Twitter and PayPal.
According to security
researcher Steven Adair, the culprit is the Pushdo botnet.
“It seems the Pushdo botnet recently made changes to its code to cause infected nodes to create junk SSL connections to approximately 315 different websites,” he says.
“The bots seem to start to initiate an SSL connection and a bit of junk to the websites and then disconnect. They do not actually request an resources from the website or do anything else other than repeat the cycle periodically.”
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