>>925080>>925089>>925089Everything I know about what's going on:
The pedo boards in particular are being used as the excuse to attack 8chan. Going beyond the usual obvious boards like /hebe/ and /younglove/ (
https://i.imgur.com/xfjhUUf.png) a lot of other boards no one particularly gives a fuck about are being targeted as well (e.g. /pact/, /phile/, etc. -
https://i.imgur.com/hrJ0nB7.png). All this is done using a wipebot - using a botnet threads are spammed to a given board (notice the number of unique IPs and posts for /pact/ in the 2nd picture) to push everything else out and then delete all the threads so the boards have nothing on them (what happened in the 1st picture).
When 8chan started to go down it was initially intermittent so I checked out /meta/ when I could to see if there was anyone talking about the downtime. There was a thread (
https://imgur.com/DbG3vWP) talking about what was going on with the pedo boards (that led to the above), and in it some faggot turned up claiming he had been the one to do it and he was targeting all the pedo shit. As we could be dealing with some retard that doesn't know anything about ddosing and who's just using lizardstresser (or some other DDOS-for-rent) hotwheels should consider looking into where that IP is from when things get going again.
As mentioned before, lizardstresser (Lizardsquad's ddos-for-rent service) has taken responsibility for the DDOS attacks (
https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/553099100686921728) which suggests we're dealing with someone who has little knowledge of this shit lending further credence that hotwheels should figure out where that IP in the meta thread is from (although it could just be some unrelated faggot fucking with people). At any rate, as I was investigating lizardstresser I stumbled upon a few different posts relevant to it. Here's a post about the history and basic functioning of lizardstresser (with a lot of info on lizardsquad) -
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/lizard-kids-a-long-trail-of-fail/ - and, much more importantly, a post on some potentially valuable vulnerabilities associated with lizardstresser:
http://www.ericzhang.me/lizardstresser-user-enumeration/In the post the guy mentioned he had collected the various UIDs and usernames of the people using lizardstresser via a pretty simple vulnerability (
http://www.ericzhang.me/dl/filestore/lizardstresser-user-dump.txt), although the list is from 11 days ago (which is notable as lizardstresser is very young). Assuming this vulnerability still exists an anon with more knowledge of this shit than me could try to duplicate it and generate an updated list of all the UIDs/usernames associated with lizardstresser.
As some of you may be well aware, Dan Olson (aka Foldable Human - the faggot that wrote the medium article bitching about pedo boards not too long ago) has been bragging on twitter about 8chan being down for some time now. This is clearly a fucking retarded thing to do, but considering how he has already located and actively try to "distribute CP" ("the pedo boards - like /hebe/, /younglove/, /phile/, etc. - are full of them guys!") via his shitty article it's clear he's not exactly bright. Thus, considering him (and the other likely culprits), with an updated list of the UIDs and usernames of lizardstresser we can cross reference the usernames with various handles these faggots go by and see if we can find any links. If we can find a link between a lizardstresser username and Olson or some other well known faggot that would like to bring 8chins down then we have one hell of a lead and will know where to focus our efforts.
With everything being said, things can change pretty fast and much of what is written above could change. So do take it with a grain of salt.
