alt Hacker NewsDid they actually run the DDoS via a script or was this a case of inserting a link and many users clicked it? They are substantially different IMO
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hexagonwin • yesterday at 8:36 PM
they silently ran the DDoS script on their captcha page (which is frequently shown to visitors, even when simply viewing and not archiving a new page)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740 has the earliest writeup that I know of. It was running it via a script and intentionally using cache busting techniques to try to increase load on the hosted wordpress infrastructure.