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Looks like they have a history of suffering these kinds of attacks: (2012) Upcoming DDOS Attack - FINAL Warning - https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530

Looks like they have a history of suffering these kinds of attacks: (2012) Upcoming DDOS Attack - FINAL Warning - https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530 https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530 (2013) Linode Mitigates DDoS Attack on Linode Manager - http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/linode-mitigates-ddos-attack-on-linode-manager http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/linode-mitigates-ddo... (July 2015) Incident Report for Linode - http://status.linode.com/incidents/vnslh3rmm9gq http://status.linode.com/incidents/vnslh3rmm9gq So what makes them such an attractive target for these types of attacks?

xena 11y ago
The fact that so many people on their IRC channel will react to the attacks.
scurvy 11y ago
LOL at the "proof" attack. "We have a huge 500gbps cannon! But to show we're serious, here's a 2gbps attack. Take that!" That's hilarious. I wouldn't have taken it seriously. I also doubt that the group that threatened them is the same group that is attacking them. I bet it's at least 1 other group. 2gbps. I doubt that even registered on their bandwidth graphs.
workitout 11y ago
And Google and AWS and Cloudflare and DigitalOcean and every other VPS provider.