Imgur exploited to channel botnet attacks at 4chan

An anonymous reader writes: GIF and meme photo-sharing platform Imgur has been compromised by attackers looking for an opportunity to direct large volumes of traffic at infamous web forum 4chan. A Reddit thread explains that “when an Imgur image is loaded from /r/4chan [] imgur loads a bunch of images from 8chan, which causes a DDoS to those sites.” Meaning that if a user clicks an Imgur link on /r/4chan, it automatically makes around “500 requests” for one image from imageboard 4chan.org/8chan.