Massive DDoS attack affects Afrihost, other networks

why target SA? or is it just a luck of the draw that this is happening?

its not like Afrihost has government or confidential servers that it looks after?
 
eg2505 said:
why target SA? or is it just a luck of the draw that this is happening?

its not like Afrihost has government or confidential servers that it looks after?
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And last week it was the banks..... maybe someone is just probing defenses?
 
Really curious as to what the end goal is - a DDoS is almost always a side project of the main intend so my guess is 2 months from now there is going to be an influx of leaked DBs and stuff floating around - this feels like a proper attack with intend.
 
So this would explain why my internet went for a ball of sh*t last night.

The only site I could access was Youtube, which I found odd. No problem streaming Youtube in HD but I couldn't get on to myBB, couldn't get in to Steam, couldn't get in to my Google or Yahoo accounts, couldn't access Netflix.
 
@AfriMan is this affecting emails as well (hosted with Afrihost) cant log on to Client zone to view anything there....
 
eg2505 said:
wonder if next they might try DDOS Eskom or something goverment related?

I mean COJ was also compromised.
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The one thing I fear is a breach of the ancient SARS security..... EVERYONE's details and records. A normal DDOS at end nov (annual peak period) would already be bad enough but the "IT chief" internationally announced it's unspoken vulnerability for all to see.

EDIT: and yes if SARS is open then all other gov servers are especially open because they use even worse tech.
 
AfriMan said:
Looks like the attacks have resumed - we're already seeing some degradation in international performance.

Our team are busy working on managing the impact to network services as much as we can :(
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731297

:cool:

Tis a 20/20 line.
 
rambo919 said:
The one thing I fear is a breach of the ancient SARS security..... EVERYONE's details and records. A normal DDOS at end nov (annual peak period) would already be bad enough but the "IT chief" internationally announced it's unspoken vulnerability for all to see.
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thats also a possibility,
what also scares me is something private like a crypto exchange primarily dealing with SA.
or a major bank like FNB gets hacked into.

I mean these DDOS have been getting stronger and stronger lately,
somebody has got a very effective weapon in their possession, and is begging to use it.

one can only hope its just some kids playing around, and not some nefarious actor
testing systems out for something worse that they are planning.
 
Good luck Afrihost. This was the first time I had reduced performance with Afrihost Fibre since i got it in April, and its an external force.
 
eg2505 said:
one can only hope its just some kids playing around, and not some nefarious actor
testing systems out for something worse that they are planning.
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My tinfoilhat suspicion is at a time of hightened national tention "someone" will intentionally crash as many major IT centres as possible remotely or otherwise and this is just minor probing.
 
rambo919 said:
My tinfoilhat suspicion is at a time of hightened national tention "someone" will intentionally crash as many major IT centres as possible remotely or otherwise and this is just minor probing.
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fully agree with you there, Id consider SA to be a soft target, compared to a country like the US.
with much more hardened systems and expertise to deal with attacks of this nature.

one can only hope they don't compromise something like the power grid, and hold the entire SA for ransom.
if they (intentionally) blow up transformers by overloading them, by controlling the entire Power system.

so lets see, hopefully its just probing, and nothing much more than that.
 
eg2505 said:
so lets see, hopefully its just probing, and nothing much more than that.
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Some people proclaim that every important country has an intelligence presence in SA, other that most of the global cybercrime operations have at least branches here if not HQ's..... if even a fraction of that is true we could potentially be in for a rough time especially when a cyber war starts up between intelligence and cybercrime factions for example.
 
eg2505 said:
fully agree with you there, Id consider SA to be a soft target, compared to a country like the US.
with much more hardened systems and expertise to deal with attacks of this nature.

one can only hope they don't compromise something like the power grid, and hold the entire SA for ransom.
if they (intentionally) blow up transformers by overloading them, by controlling the entire Power system.

so lets see, hopefully its just probing, and nothing much more than that.
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Between Eskom and cable theft, i dont think the power grid would really be worth it.

Institutions are far more likely the target.
 
AfriMan said:
Looks like the attacks have resumed - we're already seeing some degradation in international performance.

Our team are busy working on managing the impact to network services as much as we can :(
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Is your network being used to attack another?

www.moneyweb.co.za

Sabric says SA banks are under sustained DDoS attack

'Entities from several other countries are also being targeted'.
www.moneyweb.co.za www.moneyweb.co.za

Something is afoot. I know of another massive corporate that was attacked a few days ago.
 
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