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I don't know about this game, but I wonder how this hacker can identify those certain players without targeting their IP or account. The only thing I can think

by MIBMA 5y ago

I don't know about this game, but I wonder how this hacker can identify those certain players without targeting their IP or account. The only thing I can think of is if the game collects data about players statistics with Mac addresses included. This way he can ban them if he got internal control which is something developers should be able to handle and I wonder why they didn't quickly. They can rewrite the control module of the servers for example instead of just doing nothing and lose everything.

dleslie 5y ago
They aren't. No one can play TF1 because the hacker is applying a denial of service attack on the servers. Worst part is that the denial doesn't appear to be bandwidth-intensive, just a persistent trickle of bad requests. The hacker may even have forgotten they left the script running, somewhere.
- singhrac 5y ago
  Respawn continues to have DDOS issues with Apex today. Where did you hear it’s a trickle of malformed requests? I don’t understand how DDOSing is still a problem in this day and age… You start a game, 60 user accounts are in it. You inspect their IPs, give them a token, whatever. If they send too many requests you can drop some, and if it’s inhumanly possible given the games code, you ban them. That’s it? I could see how a public-facing website could get DDOSed but not a game where people are registered. I must be missing something. Maybe input parsing has to happen faster than IP check?
  - alpaca128 5y ago
    It's not a standard DDOS relying on brute force. Titanfall is attacked by someone with in-depth knowledge of how the whole distributed backend is organised and they're abusing that to keep the infrastructure from working properly. In TF2 there seems to be a whole list of unofficially "banned" streamers, for example, and if one of them tries to play multiplayer some automated script will immediately disconnect all players in the match. That causes a lot of speculation, including suspicions it's run by an ex-employee who worked on those systems internally.

by MIBMA 5y ago

dleslie 5y ago

They aren't. No one can play TF1 because the hacker is applying a denial of service attack on the servers. Worst part is that the denial doesn't appear to be bandwidth-intensive, just a persistent trickle of bad requests. The hacker may even have forgotten they left the script running, somewhere.

singhrac 5y ago
Respawn continues to have DDOS issues with Apex today. Where did you hear it’s a trickle of malformed requests? I don’t understand how DDOSing is still a problem in this day and age… You start a game, 60 user accounts are in it. You inspect their IPs, give them a token, whatever. If they send too many requests you can drop some, and if it’s inhumanly possible given the games code, you ban them. That’s it? I could see how a public-facing website could get DDOSed but not a game where people are registered. I must be missing something. Maybe input parsing has to happen faster than IP check?
- alpaca128 5y ago
  It's not a standard DDOS relying on brute force. Titanfall is attacked by someone with in-depth knowledge of how the whole distributed backend is organised and they're abusing that to keep the infrastructure from working properly. In TF2 there seems to be a whole list of unofficially "banned" streamers, for example, and if one of them tries to play multiplayer some automated script will immediately disconnect all players in the match. That causes a lot of speculation, including suspicions it's run by an ex-employee who worked on those systems internally.