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45 million requests in the last 6 hours. That’s 12-15K requests per minute or 200 requests per second. Since last night, we’ve burned through 400 GB of data (we usually do 20-30, per month)
I find it amazing to find the US so high in the infected zombie list. By looking at the map, you will see that more developed countries have less infected computers, except for the US. What could be the factor? Money? Education? Culture?
They are still going but it’s now manageable on our end. Learned a lot in the past 8 hours. The only problem is the inconvenience for our users, you will get captcha’d every now and then. For regular users this may not be a problem, but any newbie who is loading SWAPD for the first time may get discouraged.
Just in case we’re increasing security for the next 10 hours. Expect app problems and nuisances such as captchas. If our app is throwing an error, just restart it.
If that’s the concern, i guess clicking once a while on captcha is nothing for a platform like swapd. Earlier i had to just roam here and there to sell or buy any Account that too 90%+ scammers. Just completed my first deal, you guys are great and doing awesome work. Thanks
I was researching current DDoS prices and I estimated that whoever paid for this may have burned as little as 300 to as much as 800 USD for this attack, which lasted almost two days.
What a newb. It was probably @RandyMarsh, a man can only take so much before he snaps.
Kaspersky Lab has published an interesting analysis on the cost of DDoS attacks. The experts estimated that the cost to power a DDoS attack using a cloud-based botnet of 1,000 desktops is about $7 per hour. A DDoS attack service typically goes for $25 an hour, this means that the expected profit for crooks is around $25-$7=$18 per hour.
Prices are highly variable, a DDoS attack can cost from $5 for a 300-second attack to $400 for 24 hours.
“This means the actual cost of an attack using a botnet of 1000 workstations can amount to $7 per hour. The asking prices for the services we managed to find were, on average, $25 per hour, meaning the cybercriminals organizing DDoS attack are making a profit of about $18 for every hour of an attack.” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.
It is easy for criminals to pay for a DDoS attack service available in one of the numerous black markets. The services are easy to use and implement an efficient reporting system.
Not sure if I am reading the data right, but this particular DDoS had around 20K+ (combined) infected computers. If I am correct, then it wasn’t cheap to hire. I say combined because the data suggests that two networks were used at one point. It look like one network couldn’t knock the site down so a few times there were huge bursts of additional attacks, which look like other DDoSers were hired. The slight outages we had were caused by the additional attacks, but overall everything was pretty manageable at the time. Now we’re keeping an eye our for round two, I am sure it will come. Maybe not today, nor tomorrow, or in weeks/months. But we will get attacked time after time, we work in a hostile environment where we piss off many people with our actions. From recovering hacked pages, to banning scammers, we have a lot of people who hate us. This is starting to show. Last month someone was trying to break into our website, this month it’s the DDoS. I guess we can finally say we’ve made it? Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
That is about right, poor guy probably sold his ass for this. That being said ddos atacks aren’t fun at all. Back then i lost a very profitable site that could even be on par with imgur.com today just because a ddos kept burning TB worth of Bandwidth and we were forced to sell
Stay strong swapd
Whhhooops. Sorry! Now pay me the “making the admin look like a fool” fee. How would you like to pay?
Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
