Castlecops DDoS progress...

Current (as of time/date of this post):

> http://www.castlecops.com/forums.html
"We're under a DDoS, but we will prevail. Good shall overcome. –Paul Laudanski"

(Past few days…
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:wtf:

In the news at The Register:

- http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/20/castlecops_ddos/
20 February 2007 ~ "…The motives of the attack are unclear, though it's reasonable to assume the phishing fraudsters or malware authors, who have most to gain from the inavailability of Castecop's website, are the likely perpetrators. Castlecops has become the latest target in a string of attacks targeting organisations looking to frustrate the efforts of phishing fraudsters, spammers, or other internet pond life. Veteran spam fighter Spamhaus suffered a denial of service attack last September, for example, while an attack by a rogue spammer brought down anti-spam firm Blue Security in April 2006. According to Blue Security, a renegade Russian language speaking spammer known as PharmaMaster succeeded in bribing a staff member at a top-tier ISP into black-holing Blue Security's former IP address at internet backbone routers."

FYI…

- http://www.castlecops.com/article-topic-1.html

Another 933Mb/s DDoS on CastleCops
Posted by Paul on Tuesday, 20 February 2007 @ 23:16:18 UTC
"We will not be silenced! Here is a current MRTG chart showing about two hours ago we had a 933Mb/s spike DDoS, while a 44Mb/s is now consistent. Someone isn't happy we're up and running."

Near 1Gb/s DDoS on CastleCops
Posted by Paul on Monday, 19 February 2007 @ 21:31:23 UTC
"Not much for details at the moment, however, here is an mrtg chart from yesterday showing an almost full 1Gb/s attack against CastleCops. We shall prevail!"

(Charts available at the URL above.)