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Yep, this started on Friday (Christmas day). I assume Linode itself is the target of the attacks, since they have spanned multiple regions.
by mwcampbell 11y ago
Yep, this started on Friday (Christmas day). I assume Linode itself is the target of the attacks, since they have spanned multiple regions.
- empressplay 11y agoAn extortion attempt, I suspect.
- timdorr 11y agoDallas is their oldest DC, so they have the most customers there and therefore the most attack surface area at that location. It could just as easily be one of their customers.
- dangrossman 11y agoThe DDOS has hit their data centers in Dallas, Fremont, London, Newark, Atlanta, and Singapore since Christmas.
- guelo 11y agoI wonder if the attackers chose Christmas day in order to ensure that there were fewer Linode engineers available to stop the attack.
- scurvy 11y agoCan confirm that the attacks started Friday. We got alarms for some tertiary services we run in their datacenters (multiple geos).
- streetracer23 11y agoPerforming such large attacks for 5 days in a row costs thousands dollars to the attackers. It is not something a kid can do from their bedroom. Only a big company can have the budget to pay thousands to perform a 5-day multi Gbps attack against another company. Here it is clear that there is a competitor attacking Linode. A competitor who wants to extort them.
- ckgn 11y agoI was thinking the same. 5-6 days non stop attacks of dozens Gbps seriously is a big and very costly operation which seems to have been planned for a long time to be launched in Christmas holidays. I wonder which shitty hosting company decided to extort Linode because they can not offer the same quality of service. Instead of paying thousands $$$$$ to design and perform these attacks they could have just paid this money to buy better infrastructure and provide better services.
- dangson 11y agoThis helped me a bit because most of my clients are on vacation so I haven't received as many emails about sites being down/slow as I normally would've.