DATE:
USA
AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
riaa.org
AFFECTED SITES:
Multiple outages each month between the 17th-22nd for several months.
EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a
SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a
ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a
TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS
ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
A strain of the MyDoom worm that uses infected computers to attack riaa.org (and Microsoft) between the 17th-22nd of each month. Months after the strain was discovered, the RIAA website was still going down every month (Microsoft easily fixed the problem).
URLS:
1. http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-022011-2447-99
2. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/17/riaa_site_still_battling_mydoomf.html
3. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/24/riaa_site_intermittently_available_now_running_linux.html
4. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/05/17/riaa_site_offline_again_on_mydoomf_trigger_date.html
5. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/02/24/mydoomf_deletes_files_adds_riaa_to_ddos_targets.html
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