The South African Democratic Alliance party's web site seems like another random victim of the Asprox family of bots. This specific incident demonstrates several issues:

• Aprox successfully attacks organizations that should really know better.
• While most known cases of Asprox attacks result in planting of malware on the web site, since this is easily detected by malware search services, the very brutal injection used by Asprox probably takes down more sites than it infects with malware.
• According to one comment, the site used an outdated version of WordPress, stressing again the problem with not upgrading in a timely manner, especially open source software.

More information:

• Mail & Guardian, Aug 15th 2008