Cool Ideas hit by another DDoS attack

[Jamie McKane]

Cool Ideas hit by another DDoS attack

Cool Ideas is currently experiencing another major DDoS attack which is affecting the connectivity of its customers across South Africa.

Customers have experienced intermittent outages throughout the day, with issues being reported from around 11:00 on Wednesday 18 December 2019.

 

[Swa]

Not MASSIVE?

 

[karnuffel]

Oh bloody hell. I really feel sorry for CI. Who did they piss off?

 

[Ianf1]

Ping: 5ms
Download: 47.16Mbps
Upload: 5.09Mbps
Local is fine according to the mybb speed test

 

[konfab]

Oh bloody hell. I really feel sorry for CI. Who did they piss off?

Uncool people?

 

[karnuffel]

Uncool people?

What gets me is that someone (a very determined someone) is throwing money at dodgy people to get these bots to attack CI :/

 

[Creag]

Oh bloody hell. I really feel sorry for CI. Who did they piss off?

I would name the ISPs that fit the bill, but that will result in a perma-ban.

 

[PhireSide]

Disgruntled ex-employee perhaps?

I feel sorry for the clients that are suffering as a result of this

 

[Enzo Matrix]

I would name the ISPs that fit the bill, but that will result in a perma-ban.

Hmmmmm now u HAVE to spill

 

[j0766]

I'm curious - what is the best way to monitor the size of a DDoS attack? As a customer of CI, I learnt a lot about this in the last few months as this the third one in as many months. The last time I found https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard/alerts where I was able to search for Cool Ideas under AS37680 to get an idea of the attacks continuing and the size. Now they do not appear on any list as yet??!

 

[xefor]

I'm curious - what is the best way to monitor the size of a DDoS attack? As a customer of CI, I learnt a lot about this in the last few months as this the third one in as many months. The last time I found https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard/alerts where I was able to search for Cool Ideas under AS37680 to get an idea of the attacks continuing and the size. Now they do not appear on any list as yet??!

This data is only known by Cool Ideas itself. Probably in a day or two you can ask Cool Ideas on the forums here what the size is.

 

[marine1]

I thought it wasnt only CI?

 

[j0766]

I think it is possible to see the attacks at least on the ioda website but I couldn't track anything down for Cool Ideas as yet. I don't know the AS numbers for other ISPs but I did see Cell C on the list with activity 10 minutes ago

 

[blaaislaai]

I thought it wasnt only CI?

Must be only them.. my RSAWeb was flying yesterday

 

[Easter Bunny]

i should probably just stayed at metrofibre and paid the extra R200pm. fml.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

i should probably just stayed at metrofibre and paid the extra R200pm. fml.

It is hardly ever a good idea to jump to a service provider hectically punted by members of this forum. Just look at the history.

 

[access]

wonder if these are distractions to another more serious attack going on or being attempted.

seems unusual to target an isp like this

 

[flarkit]

wonder if these are distractions to another more serious attack going on or being attempted.

seems unusual to target an isp like this

/conspiracymode
If you add in the (exploratory) attempts at the banks and the Jhb muni, there could be some merit to that theory.

 

[mercurial]

How are they still not able to pinpoint the culprit(s)? You'd think in this day and age with all our technology...

 

[Swa]

wonder if these are distractions to another more serious attack going on or being attempted.

seems unusual to target an isp like this

If you eat an elephant you do it one piece at a time.