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The sooner these kids realize that DDoS extortion attacks do nothing except waste resources (and monetary resource to CloudFlare, basically), the sooner they'll
by julianlam 5y ago
The sooner these kids realize that DDoS extortion attacks do nothing except waste resources (and monetary resource to CloudFlare, basically), the sooner they'll give up.
They hit a number of VoIP providers recently, too.
- pan69 5y agoAnyone knows what the cost of performing a DDoS is these days? As a target, if you can't do anything else, is it best to hang in there and wait it out due to mounting costs for the attacker?
- muttantt 5y agoThe latest attacks on VoIP providers resulted in a SIP/VoIP specific solution from Cloudflare. I expect we will see Cloudflare mail protection soon enough... Makes you wonder.
- yarcob 5y agoI first learned that someone cracked my app from a company that offered to help me fight cracked downloads of my app. I was immediately suspicious.
- a1369209993 5y agoThis isn't new; it's called a protection racket and it works especially well if you actually do have a mechanism to protect against the thing (though of course that's not a requirement if you're generating most of the problem yourself).
- piperswe 5y agoCloudflare Spectrum can already protect arbitrary TCP services, such as SMTP or IMAP
- prdonahue 5y agoStay tuned .. Today we can help quite a bit by proxying TCP traffic using Cloudflare Spectrum, e.g., spoofed traffic will never reach origin as it can't complete a handshake, we can use things like SYN cookies to challenge source, etc. In the future, there's a lot more we plan to do here.