Problem vsech federacnich / decentralizovanych protokolu je ten, ze jsou decentralizovane. Prakticky z toho je po case vzdycky #DDoS a #federace se rozpada nebo omezuje. Pri tom by stacilo, kdyby si jednotlive nody verili a informace si redundantne preposilaly cestou nejmensi zateze.

«There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.»

TCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog - https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting-ddosed/

Getting #DDOS-ed by #AIcrawlers right now, even though I have a strict robots.txt.

Outgoing traffic suddenly increased (more or less 10 times regular traffic).

I have to block their crap using my firewall. That's NOT OK.

Well, looks like #Belfius website is inaccessible. A bit painful for one of Belgium's largest banks.

After #DDOS attacks, #Blizzard rolls back Hardcore #WoW deaths for the first time

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03/not-so-permadeath-blizzard-revives-hardcore-wow-characters-killed-by-ddos-attacks/

Who could have guessed that an industry whose entire business model is based on theft would behave like malware attacks on the Internet?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies.

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.

Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null

@altbot

#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Last week was another stakeholder meeting on #DNS4EU. #Whalebone provided a short overview of the project including a timeline. Public launch is scheduled for June this year. The talk elaborates on various considerations of the new #DNS project. I was mostly interested in the deployment aspect, the #DDoS slides and the #privacy and #anonymization mechanisms.

My personal main concern with the project is the absence of resolver technology. The project plainly uses the #KnotDNS resolver. Not a bad choice, but University taught me that diversity in the backend software introduces even more resiliency. Yet, as Whalebone is a #Czech company, it is apparent why they chose #KnotDNS exclusively.

The slides are public.

Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #11/2025 is out!

It includes the following and much more:

➝ Alleged Co-Founder of #Garantex Arrested in India;

➝ X Suffered a #DDoS Attack;

➝ Microsoft #PatchTuesday Fixes 7 Zero-days;

➝ UK Hospital Discovered 5,000 to 10,000 Unknown Devices Connected to its Network;

➝ #NVIDIA Chips Smugglers Granted Bail in Singapore;

➝ #Tenable tested #DeepSeek's Ability to Generate #Malware;

➝ #OpenAI labelling DeepSeek as "state-controlled";

➝ New #Jailbreak Method called Context Compliance Attack (CCA) Works Against Most #AI Models

Subscribe to the #infosecMASHUP newsletter to have it piping hot in your inbox every week-end

https://infosec-mashup.santolaria.net/p/template-infosec-mashup-xx-2025-7eb9e43f2aebd47f?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=mastodon

The Real Reason Twitter Went Down Actually Sounds Pretty Embarrassing

Security researchers told Wired that several X origin servers, which are designated to respond to web requests, weren't secured by the company's Cloudflare protection.

Cloudflare offers services allowing websites to automatically detect and mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, like the most recent cyberattack targeting X.

https://futurism.com/reason-twitter-went-down-embarrassing

Oh really it was Ukraine that took down X on March 10? Not so fast.

Independent security researchers found evidence that some X origin servers were not properly secured behind DDoS protection, and researchers noted they did not even see Ukraine in the breakdown of the top 20 IP address origins involved in the attacks. https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ #X #Musk #DDoS #cyberattack #cybersecurity #security #Ukraine #BotNet #Internet

No, Elon — X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine

#X marks the botnet: #Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain.

The social media platform formerly known as #Twitter went offline earlier this week. It was swamped by wave after wave of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). Now-owner #ElonMusk (pictured) has been telling everyone the #DDoS traffic came from Ukraine.

O RLY? That’s “garbage,” say experts. In #SBBlogwatch, we never stopped calling it Twitter.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/03/elon-musk-x-ddos-ukraine-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

Gestern hatten wir wieder einen #DDoS-Angriff auf #GEDBAS.

Zum Glück ist die Anzahl in den letzten Tagen weniger geworden. Kann auch damit zu tun haben, dass ich viele chinesische Netze blockiert habe.

What Really Happened With the #DDoS #Attacks That Took Down X

#ElonMusk said a “massive #cyberattack ” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the #Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. #Security experts say that's not how it works.
#Twitter #Musk

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

What Really Happened With the #DDoS Attacks That Took Down #X

https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/

Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, Causing Major Outage

X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing its third major outage of the day, with users reporting widespread login and loading issues. The hacking group Dark Storm Team has reportedly claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the platform, according to a public Telegram post.

https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-updates-2042333