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Massive DDOS attack on Cloudflare's network

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So I have been playing Guild Wars 2 recently and it has crashed multiple times in a few days. Now I know why:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/biggest-ddos-ever-aimed-at-cloudflares-content-delivery-network/

They are even bragging about the attack on Twitter... 

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My lord, sometimes hackers get on my fucking nerves.

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So I have been playing Guild Wars 2 recently and it has crashed multiple times in a few days. Now I know why:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/biggest-ddos-ever-aimed-at-cloudflares-content-delivery-network/

They are even bragging about the attack on Twitter... 

 

Sorry, but you're wrong. Guild Wars isn't hosted on Cloudflares network. NCSOFT (the publisher) have their own ASN which everything pointing at addresses within it. Cloudflare, to my knowledge, don't host game servers for anyone. It's not content which can be cached by them.

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To show how big their epeen is

They be injecting that 24bit long virus into everyone's security holes.

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You're a bit late to the party. DERPTrolling has been at it for the past two months. Was really funny when he started off making twitch streamers scared of him. Then that other guy followed him around for a day and got a hostage situation called to his house.

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You're a bit late to the party. DERPTrolling has been at it for the past two months. Was really funny when he started off making twitch streamers scared of him. Then that other guy followed him around for a day and got a hostage situation called to his house.

Phant0mLord? Yea. I heard about that. That really sucks

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You're a bit late to the party. DERPTrolling has been at it for the past two months. Was really funny when he started off making twitch streamers scared of him. Then that other guy followed him around for a day and got a hostage situation called to his house.

 

I know that, just saying that recently they launched one of the largest DDOS attack ever.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57618762-83/record-breaking-ddos-attack-in-europe-hits-400gbps/

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Sorry, but you're wrong. Guild Wars isn't hosted on Cloudflares network. NCSOFT (the publisher) have their own ASN which everything pointing at addresses within it. Cloudflare, to my knowledge, don't host game servers for anyone. It's not content which can be cached by them.

I was gonna say I was wondering if Guild Wars 2 was crashing because the people behind it kinda suck.

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Sorry, but you're wrong. Guild Wars isn't hosted on Cloudflares network. NCSOFT (the publisher) have their own ASN which everything pointing at addresses within it. Cloudflare, to my knowledge, don't host game servers for anyone. It's not content which can be cached by them.

 

Oh I never said Cloudflare was hosting gaming servers. However, it seems that many gaming websites and servers use Cloudflare Content Delivery Netword services. NCSOFT (publisher AND owner of Arenanet (developer)), Riot Games, Blizzard and many others use their services. I don't know the details but the massive attack on Cloudflare has taken down every NCSOFT games: aion, wildstar and indirectly Guild Wars 2. Many other games suffered as well.

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Oh I never said Cloudflare was hosting gaming servers. However, it seems that many gaming websites and servers use Cloudflare Content Delivery Netword services. NCSOFT (publisher AND owner of Arenanet (developer)), Riot Games, Blizzard and many others use their services. I don't know the details but the massive attack on Cloudflare has taken down every NCSOFT games: aion, wildstar and indirectly Guild Wars 2. Many other games suffered as well.

 

Cloudflares services only cover websites, so the website part may be true. Their business model simply doesn't cover game servers however. You'll find NCSoft host themselves, and go through Verizon for upstream, Arena.net are hosted by NCSoft, Riot Games use AWS and Blizzard host themselves, using AT&T for upstream.

 

Also, the Cloudflare attack was centred in Europe, not the USA where all of these companies are based and are hosted. I'd go as far to say that's possibly unrelated.

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Cloudflares services only cover websites, so the website part may be true. Their business model simply doesn't cover game servers however. You'll find NCSoft host themselves, and go through Verizon for upstream, Arena.net are hosted by NCSoft, Riot Games use AWS and Blizzard host themselves, using AT&T for upstream.

 

Also, the Cloudflare attack was centred in Europe, not the USA where all of these companies are based and are hosted. I'd go as far to say that's possibly unrelated.

 

I read it is a network node owned by cloudflare or something. Anyway, read other articles, they talk more about the gaming related issues. There is definitely something relating the attacks to these games. Still trying to figure it all out.

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I read it is a network node owned by cloudflare or something. Anyway, read other articles, they talk more about the gaming related issues. There is definitely something relating the attacks to these games. Still trying to figure it all out.

 

Err can you actually link some articles in that case?

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cyber jihad 

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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In times when we are on the brink of destruction, war, and loosing ourselves, let's remember a basic fundamental element of love, forgiveness, and understanding; God bless!

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I think Cloudflare has tons of protection in place for this kind of stuff.

They don't really 'protect', more just route the connection through another node.
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Damn hackersm thye have nothing to do so they destroy for other people.

 

 

Obama shoud execute them

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