Who can be DDOSing voat.co right now? (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by Frakir

Let's speculate. Attacks like that are costly, unless you own your botnet. Anonymous and other hacker groups would rather tend to voat anti-corporate general attitude, also they'd announce their target.

Some investor in reddit? very unlikely. Too rich to care about small thing like us.

SRS? SRD? more likely, they are off limits. But who foots the bill?

Any ideas?

Spiral_Out ago

I don't know who ~ but the fact that it keeps happening solidifies to me that this is a good place to be.

69withbillcosby ago

Reddit could be taking part due to the mass migration to voat

Cutsprocket ago

Ayy Team?

OWNtheNWO ago

It's either corporate cyberwar or the intelligence agencies.

poopwillis ago

They can't buy voat. People will move to the next voat. People will find a way to say what they want to say, and the government will always hate that.

Frakir ago

Upvoted! They, however, can stall, confuse, and mess with next voat until it is not clear what next voat means....

pitenius ago

I'd like to discuss this... how to trust? The ways I know best... inspire suspicion in others.

k_digi ago

Well haven't you heard about the "VC" offers? (Pressure from above Pressure from below)

k_digi ago

"NSA" (derivative) as I predict when I first came here.

All corporate run systems including "gov" fear real information vectors its a real problem for them.

shmegegy ago

JTRIG, naturally.

k3ksninja ago

Is there a way to identify and know for sure? Can the botnets be traced back?

Frakir ago

Botnet members can't be tracked back, usually.

After the exploit discovery, maybe

Pepper-theDoctor ago

The federal govt would benefit from Voat failing. They already have agreements with reddit for censoring content, mining users and data, and they already have accounts linked to people. Why waste the time maintaining those associations and relationships on two different sites?

[...]it definitely looks like you're currently being hit by a Layer 7 attack. Based on this, I can see at least 1962179 requests that were blocked by IUAM in the past 24 hours. It would appear that these requests are coming from a botnet, though I cannot say for certain,** all of which are using legitimate user agents**.

If im understanding this correctly, theyre using legit logins for the botnet. Who has access to that many credentials?

Mr_Quagmire ago

It doesn't say 'legit logins' it says 'legitimate user agents' which are completely different things. A user agent is just what your browser sends a web server to identify what version of browser and OS is being used. User agents can be easily spoofed.

Pepper-theDoctor ago

thanks for the clarification

Frakir ago

it can be as little, as 1000 botnet, times 2000/day...