Several white-hat hacker security sites have been hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack. Immunity, Milw0rm, and Packet Storm were in the clear as of this posting. The attackers behind the DDoS began on Feb. 6 and continued through the weekend on most of the sites. Attackers deployed a massive botnet of some 80,000 zombies to flood the sites’ domains with HTTP requests. The creator of Metasploit, HD Moore, says the attack is not sophisticated, but it’s “annoying””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/security-websites-hit-by-big-ddos-attack