Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger — Wikipedia considers removing all links to the Archive

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Alleged DDoS Campaign by Archive Today

The operator of Archive Today has allegedly been running a DDoS (denial‑of‑service) campaign against the personal blog of engineer Jani Patokallio for over a month. The site, considered by some a valuable resource for backups of information, is widely cited online, including on Wikipedia. Now, the online encyclopedia is considering removing all links to Archive Today, as reported by Ars Technica.

Patokallio wrote that since January 11 Archive Today has included a piece of JavaScript that makes a visitor’s browser open his blog in the background, triggering a massive denial‑of‑service attack. Wikipedia, among other sites, contains thousands of links to Archive Today, and as an emergency measure is considering removing them. The discussion is still ongoing on Wikipedia’s Requests for comment page, which notes that about 15 % of links to archived content are irreplaceable.