DDoS Attack Confirmed

[Tiggy]

What if's like that serve no purpose other than to make assumptions from assumptions. The fact remains upgrading hardware is not how you fix a ddos. Nor does the level 3 problem reflect on squares hardware.

[Limecat]

What if's like that serve no purpose other than to make assumptions from assumptions. The fact remains upgrading hardware is not how you fix a ddos. Nor does the level 3 problem reflect on squares hardware.

But what if the DDoS is an inside job done as an allegory for casting Level3 Reflect on SE's hardware, to try and conceal its potentially insufficient capabilities?

[Fyce]

WoW was just attacked during WoD launch.
On the Age of Wulin FB page, they also announced being under attack (it's owned by Webzen, which also publish Flyff, Rappelz, Sevencore, etc.)

It would not be surprising if other services got DDoS attacked too. It's probably not a coincidence.
I would go with what Ultimatecalibur just said.

Considering that WoW was just hit by a DDoS last Thursday, I would put money on it being the same group just shifting targets.

[Shougun]

There are some ways to defend against DDOS attacks, they're all pretty flimsy band aid like fixes or very costly and still not 100% effective lol. When the attack is large enough at least, you can absolutely defend against smaller attacks and even out buy their attack power - lol sounds like a game, someone should make DDoS the game XD.

Unless there is some serious vendetta by these attackers it would just make sense to have some minor aids (that won't be super effective) and wait it out.

[LalaRu]

Time to track down the source of every computer from the packets coming in, and sue its owner. People needs to learn to keep his PC safe, without make it a botnet client thanks to the last cracked expensive software he installed for the lulz to use it for free.

[Jinorah]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

[Fellisin]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

Because there a lot of "not nice" people in the world?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Why would anyone want to do that? I don't understand, Its just not nice.

Some people enjoy causing other people problems and with the anonymizing properties of the Internet it can be fairly easy to do so and not get caught.

[Kule]

Page wont load so just had to hit reply.

I'm being personally ddos'd so they have players ips

Found Syncflood attack from 111.140.32.16 in port 23 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 114.40.40.178 in port 445 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found PingDeath attack from 220.168.169.150 in port ICMP => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 218.77.79.43 in port 80 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 117.216.88.110 in port 445 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 182.116.241.51 in port 3389 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 112.85.42.93 in port 9064 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 195.211.154.179 in port 21320 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

Found Syncflood attack from 123.151.42.61 in port 8088 => Wed Nov 19 09:06:10 2014

[Tiggy]

Either way Snugglebutt correlation does not imply causation. It's still an assumption regardless of what people did or didn't know about the patch noted and coil nerfs. The fact that other MMOs were DDoS'd in an apparent spree of DDoS's does seem like the more likely answer, but even that is still an assumption.