Who hit Spamhaus with DDoS strike?
Spamhaus was hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after it released info about a WikiLeaks mirror site, but there is some confusion over who was behind the strike.
Last week, the anti-spam organisation put out a warning wikileaks.org was redirecting web traffic to third-party mirror site wikileaks.info – a space Spamhaus said was a known hive of activity for Russian cyber criminals. Spamhaus’s main concern was the security of the website’s Webalta's 92.241.160.0/19 IP address space – it did not have any anti-WikiLeaks agenda.
“We do have an interest in preventing spam and related types of internet abuse however and hope that the WikiLeaks staff will quickly address the hosting issue to remove the possibility of cyber criminals using WikiLeaks traffic for illicit purposes,” the organisation said.
