Cool Ideas fighting off a massive DDoS attack

Ipwn 4 said:
Again? You'd think after the first two they would put measures in place, now they just look incompetent.
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Not that easy to deal with these type of DDoS attacks. Essentially you have to get your upstream providers to black hole traffic while still letting legitimate traffic load. The internet has two very old protocols which are unfortunately not really build in mind with these type of attacks BGP and DNS - both needs replacement soon. Unfortunately when anybody says DoH to replace DNS a lot of people go batshit crazy because they are reliant on the weakness of the protocol.
 
Johand said:
Not that easy to deal with these type of DDoS attacks. Essentially you have to get your upstream providers to black hole traffic while still letting legitimate traffic load. The internet has two very old protocols which are unfortunately not really build in mind with these type of attacks BGP and DNS - both needs replacement soon. Unfortunately when anybody says DoH to replace DNS a lot of people go batshit crazy because they are reliant on the weakness of the protocol.
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Yep.

Except for DoH. That in itself introduces a lot of risks to filtering badness where your CF and GSB don't even have a clue about local threats. Also, in their statistical books it's not a thing on a global scale while it may be devastating in a targeted national attack. But DoH is a different argument.
 
FoXtroT said:
I know its probably worthless, but is there some sort of National government Cyber body that tries to co-ordinate and defend against attacks like this or are ISPs just left to their own devices?

I mean, these attackers are basically bringing SA's internet infrastructure to its knees.
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The cANCer government is chronically incompetent, you might as well have suggested that all IP packets should first be routed through Zuma's firepool.

RICA highlighted the fact that government wants to record and monitor all internet and cellular traffic with intelligence centres or whatever they were called, however that was only to spy on anyone in SA, and never to mitigate anything like a DDoS attack.

The only thing this government would be capable of doing to mitigate a DDoS attack that originates outside of SA, would be to deploy cadres to steal everything at the various submarine cable landing points.
 
genetic said:
Cool Ideas sent me a msg stating that they are dealing with international traffic issues. Seems pretty OK my side.

Why do DDoS attacks keep happening? What's the cause or reason?
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It's not just them, other ISP's also but doesn't make the news.

Someone security dude said script kiddies are preping for black friday, they want to make sure they can kill alll ISP's at once, not sure if one should believe that though. Would be kak funny if a massive ddos were to happen on black friday lol
 
irBosOtter said:
It's not just them, other ISP's also but doesn't make the news.

Someone security dude said script kiddies are preping for black friday, they want to make sure they can kill alll ISP's at once, not sure if one should believe that though. Would be kak funny if a massive ddos were to happen on black friday lol
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Not sure that 'kak funny' is the correct term to use - the lost revenue impact would be rather large - it's the last thing we need in an already ailing economy.
 
Twix said:
Constructive talk :rolleyes:

DDoS carries on :cautious:
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And we're off again. If this impacts work on Monday I have to change ISPs.

Who is backed by a big company like MTN that can actually spend money fighting off DDoS attacks?
 
Anyone know what cancellation policy with Cool Ideas is like. If I cancel now, do I pay till end of November? Or to end of December?
 
dits said:
Anyone know what cancellation policy with Cool Ideas is like. If I cancel now, do I pay till end of November? Or to end of December?
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It's a full calendar month iirc, if you want to cancel for the end of December you'd have to act quick because November is running out.
 
r00igev@@r said:
threatpost.com

Cybercriminals Impersonate Russian APT ‘Fancy Bear’ to Launch DDoS Attacks

Attacks are targeting international companies in the financial sector, demanding that victims pay ransom in Bitcoin.
threatpost.com threatpost.com

This is the intel on the guys who took down the banks - probably the same bunch of tossers.

Personally, I would not trust the drug dealers selling "DDOS scrubbing services" either.
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And over in Vietnam: https://sggpnews.org.vn/science_technology/vietnam-facing-serious-largescale-cyber-attack-84215.html
 
Rickster said:
Player 2 [Afrihost] joined.
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Seems like this will no longer be an issue. Afrihost has dropped Liquid telecoms and now using Telkom for transit. Since it was not Afrihost IP ranges that were targeted but rather Liquid Telecoms this should resolve the issue Afrihost had with DDoS attacks.
 
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