Voat is being maliciously attacked (CHECK FOR UPDATES) (announcements)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

Edit 5:

It's not over, they haven't given up entirely. I took down this sticky a few hours ago thinking that it was old news, but Voat is still being probed and attacked so I am putting this sticky back up.

Edit 4:

As many of you know already Voat is still being attacked, but in many different ways. We now believe this is related to Voat not taking down material without a court order.

Edit 3:

We are still being sent high amounts of traffic. For the time being let's just be happy we have remained online throughout this assault. Sorry about the thumbnails (text only Voat is so 1990s).

Top Traffic Last 24 Hours

DDOS Inflow

Edit 2:

This attack is relentless and dynamic. They have found holes in our system and hit us where we never expected. This has forced us to reconfigure our network and site behavior to prevent repeat attacks.

Voat has been put into "lockdown" mode so things like thumbnail generation are disabled.

Edit:

These guys are actually fairly creative. We might have a worthy opponent here. Buckle up Voat.

One of the reasons yesterday's attempt at rolling forward the port code failed was that Voat was being sent DDOS style requests in very large numbers. See yesterdays announcement about this topic.

Voat is at a stage now that the code can somewhat deal with this without capitulating. Usually these attacks only last 10-12 hours, but this current run has been longer in duration than normal so we are now informing the community that we are actually being maliciously targeted.

Below are some interesting graphs showing some stat data:

Top traffic sources in Last 24 hours

Requests over last 30 days

CPU drop when CF DDOS Protection turned on

I'll provide more info when we have it, but PG.

Until then, enjoy having your bits closely inspected. Please don't be shy about it either, just go with it. This includes the ladies as well... ;)

https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806

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10674727? ago

Do you think its a coincidence the shitposting guys decided to attack v/Linux again just now? v/linux/new

https://archive.fo/3VrK0

https://archive.fo/4eaPm

JoeMontana ago

Those are the srs and soupretardboxhammer guys right?

10675107? ago

In another reply they say they are doing it to catch me out for downvoating with alts or something. I'm not buying it. They seem butthurt about Voat potentilly moving off Windows for some reason.maybe its not as easy to track data if it's not on Azure.

10675377? ago

Same here. The shitposters were upset that I insulted Gabara and told him to not shitpost in /v/Linux

clamhurt_legbeard ago

On behalf of the shitposters, nobody cares if you insult gabara.

10676410? ago

Gabara cares.

Ohh how he cares.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

lol

i mean

yeah

10675436? ago

So they probably think I'm you then?

10675611? ago

Well I am talking to myself right now

lord_nougat ago

GET A ROOM YOU... um, one person!

JoeMontana ago

Interesting. Maybe they can't influence voting on linux as they can now?

10675175? ago

Not sure but the logic they are showing makes them dumb on the African level.

JoeMontana ago

I would love if going to linux fucks them over one way or the other. They have been trolling for too long on voat already. Not even in a funny or entertaining way.

10675227? ago

They are openly making accounts so they can vote manipulate on popular subs on Voat now. If @PuttItOut doesnt see this and address it then it will get worse and worse. They are doing this to drive users away from Voat.

Chiefpacman ago

He wont do anything. He seems fond of them.

CheckTheLogs ago

@PuttItOut doesn't have time for this. I looked through your history, you are always complaining that people are downvoting stuff you like or upvoting stuff you don't like. You folks in /v/Linux probably shouldn't have bragged about how much better Voat would be on Linux. I'm sure it will be exactly the same once PuttItOut figures out what Mick did and fixes it. You can't boast about something you like and then expect to be "shielded" when something unfortunately happens involving that something you like. You're mom isn't here.

Chiefpacman ago

You made this account to make that comment.

One more alt?

10675428? ago

So you are butthurt about Voat going on Linux? Lol ok then.

CheckTheLogs ago

No right now it's just the database, the part that's fucking up that's running on Linux. The rest is back on the stable C# code which would have to be windows unless it's mono or something.

10675498? ago

Look in the announcement thread the admin made. It's under attack.

CheckTheLogs ago

Yeah, and you posted before that. About nothing. Shitposting on voat. Wow, so new? Have you heard of SBBH before? You're really wasting my time.

10694298? ago

@heygeorge is this SBBH doing this?

heygeorge ago

Doing what? Although chances are the answer is no.

10694407? ago

Read the comment I replied to. Someone is trying to blame you for something. I thought it was Mick that ran your sub last I looked though, unless thats you. Could have been another sub though.

CheckTheLogs ago

He'll be back, he's just coming off A LOT of drugs right now. He does this every few months. Deletes his account, disappears for 3 weeks and then comes back and begs everyone to given them mod access back.

JoeMontana ago

They have driven away people for sure. A while ago one of them pm-d me that I was under the investigation for child porn. He did this on a mod account, while he thought I was a brand new conservative user. He did this to at least 20 other people. He deleted that account after I showed the screen shot in a thread on voat. He was right back on another account harassing people the next day though. I am disappointed by the lack of action from the board owner. Not to mention the pedo subs and the drugs selling subs. Voat isn't what it used to be anymore. Although I was pleasantly surprised to see that not everyone bought into the Vegas hoax.

10675484? ago

Well at the end of the day it's just a board on th net. If he doesn't wnt to address it then it will die off. I dont mind if they have an opionion but twhen they get 25 accounts to upvote that just because they can there is something wrong.

JoeMontana ago

He was joking around with the nameless in another thread. I bet he's a leftie and wishes the nazis and right wingers would fuck off and that's why he condones it.

10675575? ago

I think I'll start posting some right wing stuff then. Or maybe not becuse I have a life to live and dont really give a fuck about them.

JoeMontana ago

We're all on our own ride. Sometimes roads can cross. Doesn't mean we all have to get in the same car.