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Somebody is demonstrating their DDOS capabilities to be able to sell capacity to malicious buyers
by nusl 3y ago
Somebody is demonstrating their DDOS capabilities to be able to sell capacity to malicious buyers
- numbsafari 3y agoOr someone is trying to make something being hosted there unavailable.
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoMicrosoft's Github?
- internetter 3y agoMicrosoft has very little to gain from DDoSing sourcehut as at the end of the day GitHub’s competition is like flies, AND Microsoft has a lot to loose if it was discovered they did it
- sam_lowry_ 3y agoCompanies are made of people. Those whose wealth and wellbeing depend on Github being the monopoly may be interested in destroying the competition before it grows into a concern.
- dingnuts 3y agoIt would be really stupid for Microsoft, the country's richest company, to go after a tiny competitor via extralegal means. Absolutely would make no sense. The liability they would incur would be astronomical
- Snow_Falls 3y agoNot to mention the free publicity for their competitor if they're caught. "We're so good, Microsoft was scared of us"
- progbits 3y agoCloudflare should just run a public ddos sink with live traffic dashboard so the attackers can demonstrate their power there and leave the rest of us alone. /s
- internetter 3y agoThe funniest thing is that this doesn’t strike me as a terrible idea, though maybe it looks bad from a marketing perspective: “Look, if you’re trying to sell DDoS services, go right ahead, demonstrate your ability on our infrastructure. That way you’ll also know not to target our infrastructure” But at the same time that might genuinely be a positive for the net. Just like the drug epidemic — you can’t stop people from doing it, but you can reduce the potential harm
- Snow_Falls 3y agoGood for the internet but then there would be less attacks on real websites, who is cloudflare going to charge people for protection? Could be a good nonprofit idea though, get some hosting companies together and donate band with to a central target to get people to stop targeting their actual customers.
- internetter 3y agoThis is straight out of the onion. I love it so much.
- beretguy 3y agoThey should use some crappy websites like Twitter to do that.
- kramerger 3y agoStatements like this don't help either "However, this is not an ordinary DDoS attack; the attacker posesses considerable resources and is operating at a scale beyond that which we have the means to mitigate ourselves." :(
- b4ke 3y agoWe did just (Americans and allies) Iranian proxies…non-news really when run through the lens of current political environment. The things under attack are the message, not the attack itself. XD
- fmajid 3y agoThe Chinese government routinely runs DDoS against GitHub because it hosts VPN software that can be used to circumvent the Great Firewall of China. They use the Great Cannon of China, which is the offensive side of the Great Firewall, effectively turning ordinary Chinese Internet users into an unwitting army of DDoS-ers. Of course, GitHub and Microsoft have significantly higher resources than SourceHut to endure the DDoS.
- mschuster91 3y ago> Of course, GitHub and Microsoft have significantly higher resources than SourceHut to endure the DDoS. At that point I wonder why peering partners of Chinese ISPs used in these attacks don't go and drop connectivity unless the abusive traffic gets stopped.
- beretguy 3y agoPardon my lack of knowledge, is it possible to block all requests that originate from a particular country?
- jszymborski 3y agoWhile the attack might be sponsored by one country, the servers often come from a wide number of places.
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- wly_cdgr 3y agoYeah that seems most likely. The targets will have been chosen for being likely to attract the attention of the relevant communities.