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?

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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