“Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”
Interesting.It is entirely possible it is survivor bias on my part but I get the suspicion that a global sort of 'cyberwar' that has been rumbling along for years is heating up rapidly. I've seen a 10x increase in various scripted attacks being attempted (patch early and often folks!) and a number of APT level compromises of systems either staging malware or deploying it (see the latest bulletin on the Afghan government compromise). And of course the whole Free Syrian Army / ISIS / terrorist nom de jure attacks.I can't shake the analogy to pictures from WW II where shop keepers were huddled in the back while soldiers fought from the front of the store. I see innocent servers being 'occupied' by enemy malware so that it can launch attacks on other servers further into a protected network.Fortunately in this modern version of war you can "kick the soldiers out" of your server by bringing it down and re-imaging it. And they won't turn around and shoot you, but that is not all that comforting somehow.