The Biggest DDoS Cyber Attack In History Just Happened, And I Feel Fine

I love spam, with some over easy eggs and toast....mmmmm......

I like to see everyone in the world do a search of all the government websites of N.Korea.

At bed time open many many cmd prompts.

Then ping those N.Korea websites with a -t at the end to make it continuous. Leave you computer on and running.

Finally, go to bed and have a nice sleep.

Most Glorious Leader! Today I have the honor to report that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the most popular country in the world! We have recieved over 9000 hits in the past 24 hours alone! Our servers cannot keep up with such demand! We must divert funds from wheat shipments to build a brand new Most Glorious Center For the Advancement of the People in the Face of Imperialist Aggression, from the finest in 1980s Soviet computer technology!

A new type of server called an "interceptor" could easily stop these attacks. Like snails that latch onto the side of the aquarium. They are easy to make and can be made aware of such DDoS attacks. Every websites page and requests can be monitored and the average weight of a page and response can recorded. Non one needs to retrieve the same information 3 times in a given amount of time. Time is the key for a DDoS attack to work. Break that time interval that requests are allowed to happen, from a given range of IP's and your DDoS is dead. I wouldn't know for sure of course... but it sounds doable huh? :)

"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."

@D13

It's obvious you've never worked in DDOS mitigation before. Layer7 attacks like http get/post, etc. attacks can be approached that way, but this is sheer volume. Major transit provider/tier1 backbone carriers, etc. are having to carry this traffic to it's destination. Not everybody has the ability or resources to weed out this stuff. Many times there are providers that already know or 'detect' these attacks, and the response is to null route/black hole the traffic. You can't approach this the same way because many people subscribe to spamhaus's services and would in effect block or filter legitimate traffic as well. There are only a handful of people that can really detect, analyze, and mitigate NOT diffuse these attacks. I'm one of those people.

Remember, we the world or USA can repeat this attack pinging every time you are not using you computer. Just begin you ping attack, when you sleep or go to work and walk away..... LOL.

This is the craziest load of crap we have read since Fox News. There were no "compromised computers" or "botnet" used, the attack was not that big of a deal and only hit the intended target until CloudFlare played Captain Savior at the expense of its clients. There was no slowed internet. That was sensationalism at its finest and you bought it hook, line, and sinker. Somebody tell us that your life was affected by this targeted attack because we've yet to hear about anything more than some people in London whose Harry Potter buffered too often on Netflix. Spamhaus and Cyberbunker are 2 companies and STOPhaus is over 40. How do you compare a collective effort to a squabble between two businesses? What a joke. Before you go print some nonsense you should look at the facts more clearly and attempt to get a side or 2 of the story. Would you like an interview? We have several reps that are handling media coverage.