Author Topic: DonationCoder website under ddos attack this morning (Read 82,592 times)

mouser · « **on:** July 25, 2018, 05:41 PM »

We've been under a denial of service attack this morning for the last couple of hours.
Server admins are working on hardening firewall and we have cloudflare engaged which should be slowing down attack (at the cost of an initial page load when you try to access dc).
Hopefully everything is working at the moment and this will be short lived.
Thank you for your patience!

wraith808 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 25, 2018, 06:26 PM »

Ah... I was wondering about that loading page. Glad that you got it back up! Who did we piss off, I wonder...

f0dder · « **Reply #2 on:** July 25, 2018, 08:29 PM »

Any clue as to why it's happening - ransom, specifically targetting us, or being a collateral damage of colocation?

mouser · « **Reply #3 on:** July 25, 2018, 08:39 PM »

No idea.

But just in case I sent out any pending non-expiring license key requests that had been in the queue for a few days

KodeZwerg · « **Reply #4 on:** July 25, 2018, 09:57 PM »

Thank you for informing us, i'd thought i got network connection errors today.
Since i am able to connect and read/write again, i hope you catched those "where is smiley for *nuke them*" ....

Thanks for hard work and never give up!!! Please!

KodeZwerg · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2018, 06:48 AM »

FYI: I still get sometimes this with my browser

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2018, 07:17 AM »

It transpires that things are not quite over - there are still some intermittent outages which may cause the website to go offline for unknown periods of time.

Mouser is aware and is doing what he can; in order to mitigate these issues and stabilise the server

wraith808 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2018, 03:46 PM »

I take it that it's still under attack.

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 27, 2018, 03:52 PM »

Quote from: wraith808 on July 27, 2018, 03:46 PM

I take it that it's still under attack.

Seems that way.

Shades · « **Reply #9 on:** July 27, 2018, 04:30 PM »

Some NL sites I frequently visit were also unreachable a week or so ago. After research from a tech site that got hit, it appears that someone paid about 40 euro's to have a stress test website attack several domains for a day. No questions asked by the stress test website to see if the person paying for the stress test had anything to do with the requested domains...they just take the money and do their thing. The guy who paid for it was eventually caught, because he started to provoke/brag to one of the admins of the tech site through IRC.

Curt · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2018, 06:15 PM »

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wraith808 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2018, 06:22 PM »

Quote from: Curt on July 27, 2018, 06:15 PM

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Yes, mouser explained that he switched on CloudFlare protection, so that's what that is from.

Quote from: Shades on July 27, 2018, 04:30 PM

Some NL sites I frequently visit were also unreachable a week or so ago. After research from a tech site that got hit, it appears that someone paid about 40 euro's to have a stress test website attack several domains for a day. No questions asked by the stress test website to see if the person paying for the stress test had anything to do with the requested domains...they just take the money and do their thing. The guy who paid for it was eventually caught, because he started to provoke/brag to one of the admins of the tech site through IRC.

A few I know are under attack also. Why do people do such things for no real reason?

Tuxman · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2018, 07:09 PM »

Those might have been regular visitors, looking for my software.

wraith808 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2018, 07:59 PM »

Quote from: Tuxman on July 27, 2018, 07:09 PM

Those might have been regular visitors, looking for my software.

I've never known you to be an optimist!

Tuxman · « **Reply #14 on:** July 27, 2018, 08:03 PM »

Now I'm a sad optimist.

Tuxman · « **Reply #15 on:** July 27, 2018, 08:03 PM »

I can't visit DC over Emacs now anymore, by the way.

Deozaan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 27, 2018, 08:12 PM »

Quote from: Shades on July 27, 2018, 04:30 PM

After research from a tech site that got hit, it appears that someone paid about 40 euro's to have a stress test website attack several domains for a day.

You mean "stress test" website. They're really DDOS services calling themselves something innocuous sounding so they can claim to be providing a legitimate service. Kind of like how video game ROM sites claim to just be "backups" and not intended for piracy.

mouser · « **Reply #17 on:** July 28, 2018, 01:10 PM »

A heads up that you should make sure you copy to the clipboard your posts before you submit them during this time, in case cloudflare does it's thing and loses your post after you submit it.

Tuxman · « **Reply #18 on:** July 28, 2018, 02:55 PM »

A heads up that DC is still broken.

mouser · « **Reply #19 on:** July 28, 2018, 02:57 PM »

Are you going through a proxy via brazil, china, russia, or indonesia? Those countries had to be blocked (temporarily) as they are the source of the attack.

Tuxman · « **Reply #20 on:** July 28, 2018, 03:09 PM »

No, I have my VPN disabled (at least today).

mouser · « **Reply #21 on:** July 29, 2018, 10:49 AM »

The attack continues.. So strange.. Why anyone would target us I cannot fathom..

wraith808 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 29, 2018, 11:12 AM »

Quote from: mouser on July 29, 2018, 10:49 AM

The attack continues.. So strange.. Why anyone would target us I cannot fathom..

Mistaken identity? The fact that we fight spam? Just random?

I take it that the attacks vary widely in country of origin?

f0dder · « **Reply #23 on:** July 29, 2018, 11:34 AM »

Quote from: Tuxman on July 28, 2018, 02:55 PM

A heads up that DC is still broken.

Use a browser instead of a semi-broken wannabe OS ball of mud

Tuxman · « **Reply #24 on:** July 29, 2018, 01:13 PM »