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UGNazi: Cyber Attack On CloudFlare And 4chan Following Arrest

Calendar Jun 07, 2012 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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After the FBI arrested Cosmo, the alleged leader of the UGNazi hacking group, the hackers attacked CloudFlare via a flaw in Google's two-factor authentication system. The CloudFlare hack allowed UGNazi to change the DNS for 4chan, so visitors to the site were redirected to a UGNazis Twitter account. The attack on the Wounded Warrior Project site was allegedly done for no reason but to spite The Jester.

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