The carpet-bombing DDoS attack which affected Cool Ideas

[Jamie McKane]

The carpet-bombing DDoS attack which affected Cool Ideas

Internet service providers in South Africa recently fell victim to large-scale distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). Among the more prominent targets was Cool Ideas, a fibre ISP.

Cool Ideas has been the target of two attacks in the past month: the first on 11 September, and the second on 21 September. The second attack started on a Saturday. Heritage Day was that coming Tuesday, and many people would have taken the Monday off to turn it into a long weekend.

 

[mercurial]

No digital forensics to pinpoint the culprit(s)?

 

[Olesia]

Why cool ideas and not mweb ? Suppose they target top ISP .....

 

[SeaSickMama]

i see due to my article i posted a while ago on cool ideas about this they finally write it up

 

[GoneWithTheWindows]

To whom does this benefit? Ofc, Afrihost/MWEB execs.

ROFL!
Afrihost and Mweb? Are you nuts?

 

[SilverCode]

Could be as simple as someone on the Cool Ideas network did something in an online game which another player didn't like and decided to retaliate by hiring a botnet to knock him offline by targetting the whole ISP.

Doesn't have to be a crazy conspiracy theory of someone attacking the ISP itself. Some kids with money to burn are just a-holes.

 

[Thor]

Could be as simple as someone on the Cool Ideas network did something in an online game which another player didn't like and decided to retaliate by hiring a botnet to knock him offline by targetting the whole ISP.

Doesn't have to be a crazy conspiracy theory of someone attacking the ISP itself. Some kids with money to burn are just a-holes.

That happened.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Nice airplane that B-52, from the 1950s and still going strong. TCP/IP is nearly the same. An old protocol that no-one changes....

 

[TheTwo]

Why cool ideas and not mweb ? Suppose they target top ISP .....

Mwebs performance is usually As if they're being ddosd

 

[Glordit]

Could be as simple as someone on the Cool Ideas network did something in an online game which another player didn't like and decided to retaliate by hiring a botnet to knock him offline by targetting the whole ISP.

Doesn't have to be a crazy conspiracy theory of someone attacking the ISP itself. Some kids with money to burn are just a-holes.

Yup. It's easy on PSN to find some ones IP, create a group on PSN and then just follow the data trail.