Severe lag - 05/01/16 (ASD)

Comitis

Im guessing aardwolf people. 

Dochitha

Medi said:

Is it Santar? =( Is he mad?

More like Dajio Olysias

Dochitha

Cooper said:

Sarapis said:

Turns out it's someone trying to blackmail us. They want a pay out in bitcoin to go away. Fat chance, obviously. We're deploying some countermeasures shortly that should sort things out.

I'll give you four guesses as to who it is.

Yeah it only costs like $10 to hire a DDoS. They sold it in plans and packages. It's crazy.

Mark Zuck and Larry Page and Jeff Bezos need to look at stopping Cyber crimes and DDoS, before making internet free.

Lyrin

Pretty sure* DDoS gives cause so you could always hire an IRL mark, I hear Timux is available.

*if I'm wrong, you can hire rukimoro to handle any ensuing issues.

Hirgrim

Seems like there's a disgruntled player trying to 'stick it to the man', man. Just glad they've not really been successful beyond the brief inconvenience of lag.

Dochitha

Lyrin said:

Pretty sure* DDoS gives cause so you could always hire an IRL mark, I hear Timux is available.

*if I'm wrong, you can hire rukimoro to handle any ensuing issues.

Zap

Greys

I think the Garden got their idea for the next big event. Fighting little chaos entities that chew away at the fabric of time.

Gamden

Let Tanris suit up and fight these ddos attacks head on , in the interwebs!

Jonathin

I feel like this is a certain infamous person that was somewhat recently (maybe not so recently, no idea) banned because of stupidity. Just seems like the sort of stupid and petty thing said person would do.

Anaria

It is important to remember that DDoS is in fact a Federal Crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) which carries not inconsiderable penalties, up to and including ten years in prison and fines of upwards of $500,000 in the United States. 

It would probably be best therefore to leave this to the admins and abstain from speculative posts about who might be behind it. We don't want to be accusing anybody of a crime they may not have committed.

Tibitha

What happens if the perpetrator is not on US soil and attacks a site hosted in the US?

Reiloch

Then we call Batman to perform an extraordinary rendition.

Anaria

Tibitha said:

What happens if the perpetrator is not on US soil and attacks a site hosted in the US?

Would you like to a play a game?

Or, if you are too young to get that reference... Pew Pew! 

http://map.norsecorp.com/

This is a real time map of world wide cyber attacks currently in progress. As I write this, a MASSIVE attack is being carried out by China's Guandong Province Network against Roseville California with contributing computers in eastern Europe and parts of Africa. Keep in mind that this map represents only those systems measured by Norse's infrastructure and what you are looking at is maybe 1% of the data they receive at any given time.

The western world has pretty strong international treaties and intelligence sharing. But it takes a massive amount of damage before any real coordination begins to actually happen. Which brings me to your question: the source is usually either Asia or parts of the world where our treaties are weak. I've been seeing a lot of activity from Russia in the last few weeks also. In these cases there is effectively nothing we can do legally.

Cyber warfare is a real thing. Countries engage in it all the time to undermine rivals, steal government or corporate secrets or just because they can. I'm sorry to say that 90% of the time (and I'm being very generous here) the United States is the kid on the playground getting pounded. And all that is before you factor in home-grown "Hacktivist" groups with a chip on their shoulder.

That being said, whoever is carrying out the DDoS attacks against Achaea is not some super hacker from Russia or China. It is almost certainly a disgruntled man-child from the United States or Europe using any of the free tools commonly available. I doubt such an individual could "hire" some outside group to do the attacks for him as I've heard speculated. It wouldn't surprise me if he was carrying out the attacks from his own basement.

Tibitha

@Anariahttp://www.digitalattackmap.com/ is another cool one. One thing to remember with these maps is that the "target" is usually the point of entry into the country, so it'll usually show up where the ISP is, rather than the actual target.

As for the DDoS, it's actually quite tricky to bring most things down with just one PC (both because you don't have the fire power and because its easy to counter), you usually need at least a small bot net. There are a couple of tools/people on the internet who run bot nets (where a bot is usually some innocent guy who's computer's been compromised by malware, aka, your parents) and they're pretty easy to find if you know where to look.

While you could possibly convince some of them to do it for free (for the lulz), they usually require a small fee. Unless you have access to a network of compromised systems, it's not something you just install on your PC and click "Go".

Aktillum

This thread has turned into "who is trying to bring down Achaea?" into "how to bring down Achaea". O.o

Trey

Daaaaaaaaaamn Guangzhou is bringing the heat.