DDOS attack

[Shialan]

People getting trolled by OP.

[sagacious]

People getting trolled by OP.

are you the DDOS attacker? Shialan I play 6 to 8 hrs a day I just wanna play there's no trolling I want to understand this situation. The video was simplistic at best who wants to do this? and keep millions from playing this game? is is a corporate attack from a business rivel? or could it be from the inside disgruntled employee?

[Lucyfurr1988]

are you the DDOS attacker? Shialan I play 6 to 8 hrs a day I just wanna play there's no trolling I want to understand this situation. The video was simplistic at best who wants to do this? and keep millions from playing this game? is is a corporate attack from a business rivel? or could it be from the inside disgruntled employee?

DDOS happens for lots of reasons

-the attacker doesnt like business practices
-retaliation for getting perma banned
-business rivals engaging in cyber warfare
-just cause they can

at the end of the day all we can do is wait it out till its resolved.

[UkcsAlias]

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Most commonly its showcasing. At least against the bigger platforms it is.

If you are a ddos hoster and you can show you can take out a big platform, taking out a smaller one poses no problems. This makes it more likely that someone who wants to do damage will go for your platform to perform certain attacks.
And those attacks are nearly always for extortion. Pay X to make the ddos stop, or suffer Y days worth of damage in which your company cant operate.

That a game platform doesnt go down however, can mean it is a single person behind it, but even at this scale, that is quite a cost to make. Its unlikely that a random individual is behind that. There is almost always a company behind attacks at this scale. The intention of that company is unknown though and can be several things.

There is also the option that SE had some ddos protection ready, wanted to test it in runtime, yet the protection failed, so it caused problems. Not all companies are willing to openly admit mistakes here. But there is a good reason to not disclose it. If you admit you did the test yourself, you only bait someone into trying more ddos attacks. Its very conveniently just before a maintenance moment so if servers crashed more severely, this window would have given more time to fix it.
Ending the ddos early in those cases however would reveal it was them, and not even give them a good chance to test proper mitigation. So even then, you just keep it running.

[MistakeNot]

are you the DDOS attacker? Shialan I play 6 to 8 hrs a day I just wanna play there's no trolling I want to understand this situation. The video was simplistic at best who wants to do this? and keep millions from playing this game? is is a corporate attack from a business rivel? or could it be from the inside disgruntled employee?

We don't know who is responsible.
Most likely some bored kids who think it is fun sabotaging stuff. They wouldn't have the technical resources by themselves, but there are botnets for hire that they can rent.

[JenniZockt]

the DDos atack has started again, pls fix this, we are all paying custumers who want to play

Regards
Jenni_Zockt

[Sjol]

the DDos atack has started again, pls fix this, we are all paying custumers who want to play

Regards
Jenni_Zockt

You're complaining that they're not recovering fast enough from being attacked?

[JenniZockt]

No, I complain that, as such a gigantic company, they are not able to take preventative measures, those are two different things

[Themarvin]

No, I complain that, as such a gigantic company, they are not able to take preventative measures, those are two different things

a 7 layer DDoS attack is really difficult to ward against or the likes, if you educated yourself a bit by looking it up, you would see that, you need to put your complaints about those that perform it and further more all the people that has been infected by this little bot tool that then sends traffic to the server.

It could be everything, from your car to washing machine, litterally anything connected to a network that sends these messages to the server.

[Sjol]

No, I complain that, as such a gigantic company, they are not able to take preventative measures, those are two different things

I'm sure they are taking lots of preventative measures, but no shield of protection is perfect forever, especially with a motivated and well-equipped attacker.

Until we have evidence that SE's attempts at protecting themselves were negligent somehow, attacking them for being attacked seems wrong.