#ddosattack

[allykatsart]

More Tumblr x AO3 art. Anyone else remember when the archive was in the hospital for like 3 days? Yeahahahah that was scary

...also AO3 would get stabbed and then say 'im sorry for the mess' dksflakdfj;as

[thefugitivesaint]

What kind of person attacks the Internet archive? I mean, what is wrong with people? "Trash a bank if you've got real balls." Assholes.

[elysianfieldsarchive]

DDoS Attack

As some of you may have noticed, the site has been performing more slowly than usual the last few days, culminating in several spotty outages today (April 27). We looked on the back-end and have concluded EF is under a DDoS attack, and have taken the precautions suggested by our host to help address it. 

The measures we’ve enacted are designed to mitigate illegitimate attempts to access Elysian Fields. At this time, we do not know how long these measures will be necessary, or if they will be enough to address the issue. We ask your patience as we work to protect the site, and welcome any questions or specific usage errors be sent to elysianfieldsarchive@gmail.com

Thank you!

[tanookireviews]

This is a PSA

Internet Archive has had a DDOS attack and has potentially had multiple usernames, passwords and emails stolen from Users.

If you have made an account on the website, please change the password once the site is back up and maybe change passwords on everything else.Thanks for listening.

[fortunafavore]

Not the squapes too 😱

[hotfudgecherryrosy]

What a DDoS Attack Looks Like

I'm working on my senior design project rn. We have datasets (I don't remember where they're from specifically) of real DDoS attacks that we're using in it.

Using the Google chart javascript api I plotted all the TCP sessions in the sample dataset. Yellow dots are benign and red are malicious. Cool as shit to look at so I thought some people would like to see it.

[croliss77]

A massive coordinated DDOS attack is causing some problems for X leaving Nazis to find other silos to justify their shit. Press F

[emma-dennehy-presents]

throwing hands at the assholes that DDoS'd archive.org

[bogprincessofthewest]

Totally irrelevant to what I usually post (I barely do) but some pricks really took down the Internet Archive?! What pieces of shit

[gokustormofficial22]

If A03 keeps getting DDOS'd I swear!

Look I understand that all of the 'Control freak' countries want A03 to die and burn in a horrible agonizing blaze of eternal death but.. A03 is not their fucking property. Also, if a fucking website used mainly for fanfiction and tomfoolery has gotten you so mad you are literally trying to kill it with fire then maybe just use the tag system or perhaps leave A03 alone? I mean honestly A03 boutta make a damn Minecraft server >_>

[donotdestroy]

“Musk posted on X early Monday afternoon that he believed ‘a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved,’ though the source of motivation behind the attack wasn’t confirmed. Musk also replied ‘Yes’ to a post on X suggesting people are trying to silence the billionaire and his platform, although no further details about the service disruption, including whether it was caused by a targeted attack, have been revealed.”

[morganasmissus]

this is absolutely fascinating- please go read it if you haven't already. of course i knew about the attacks, but the absolute magnitude that ao3 and it's volunteers were faced with? it's unbelievable.

truly, thank you to @ao3org and all the volunteers (only 6 at the time to handle all of that!!) for everything. this has really enlightened me on just how much work you all do, and all in your free time.

so again, thank you. i know i'm not the only one who feels an insane amount of gratitude. i need my bedtime stories!!

[eastcoastiealien]

AO3 is down for maintenance again. Do you think this is another attack?

[monetizeme]

"Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here.

[without paywall]

It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC

"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review."

The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."

"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company."

The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.

Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.

Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.

In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."

Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.

Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website https://pathtruths.com/"

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[carpeossa]

My ghouls internet archive is down

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