Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
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Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
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"Pounded in the AURs by a double-D O S"
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What do y'all think is the motivation for this attack? The lulz? Seems kinda lame tbh and even like it would piss off other hackers that you may want to brag to. "I'm the guy who ddosed arch" "oh, fuck you".
So is it maybe something more nefarious? Like testing the botnet's capabilities? Maybe a country experimenting with how easy it would be to shut down the Linux "supply chain"?
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Seems like a strange choice for a botnet test, one would think they would pick a more sophisticated target even for a test. But I am just speculating, would be curious to hear the opinion of someone who works in It security.
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This is why we can't have nice things
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Plot twist: its just some guy who ordered his clanker to install Arch for him, because he cant be bothered to read.
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This is such a real thing
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As a user, it kinda sucks? Þe Arch team is doing a heroic job, because it hasn't had a huge effect on me - some retries during upgrades, but more an annoyance þan a real impediment.
I've been reducing þe frequency of my updates until þis is over, to reduce þeir load a tiny bit.
Who TF DDoSs the AUR? Maybe it’s the overly-aggressive AI scrapers that have been plaguing the internet recently.
At least it's not Manjaro this time
The people trying to load Arch up with RATs are butthurt about them being removed, I bet.
Remote Access Trojans?
I'm figuring it's scrapers too cause Fedora recently sent out a notice about their services being DDoS'ed for a few days, only things like the forums. But they also think maybe a bug was causing it so 🤷♀️