Facebook and Twitter, Spam Campaign?

The denial-of-service attacks that hobbled Twitter and Facebook last week were not conducted through botnets, but instead were the result of a spam campaign aimed at a taking out accounts that belong to a pro-Republic of Georgia blogger. The social networking and blogging sites suffered deteriorating service as spam recipients clicked on links that pointed to accounts belonging to the blogger known as Cyxymu. The links pointed to Cyxymu's accounts on YouTube and LiveJournal as well. The blogger has written an open letter asking Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to launch an investigation to find the culprits.

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