http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/strange_ssl_web_attack/

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Shadowserver has identified 315 websites that are the recipients of the 
SSL assault. In addition to cia.gov and paypal.com, other sites include 
yahoo.com, americanexpress.com, and sans.org.
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http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20100129

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They do not actually request an resources from the website or do anything 
else other than repeat the cycle periodically. They are doing this to 
hundreds of sites all day long. We find it hard to believe this much 
activity would be used to make the bots blend in with normal traffic, but 
at the same time it doesn't quite look like a DDoS either.
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Somebody generating noise for cover, or just a botched ddos?
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