BitInstant getting hit by a DDoS attack?

[Elwar]

I tried to go to the BitInstant website and got:

Website currently unavailable
The website you are trying to access is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time.
If you are the site owner, here is a help resource to help resolve the issue

by CloudFlare, their DDoS checker...

[Akka]

It would really be interesting who DDoS Bitcoin sites all the Time.

About a year ago, there was this time when pools where often DDoS'ed, this has stopped , seems they are going for services know.

Last Week it was BTC-E. Today bitcoin.de, too.

[RodeoX]

Who stands to gain from DDOS-ing bitinstant?   

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

I tried to go to the BitInstant website and got:

Website currently unavailable
The website you are trying to access is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time.
If you are the site owner, here is a help resource to help resolve the issue

by CloudFlare, their DDoS checker...

Yup, we are under attack.

More info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120749.msg1322799#msg1322799

Will post an update soon

-Charlie

Who stands to gain from DDOS-ing bitinstant?   

He sent us an email with a 10,000 BTC ransom.

[RodeoX]

Thanks Yankee. Perhaps I will offer a 1000BTC to a SR hitman and put an end to his efforts. 

[Elwar]

I tried to go to the BitInstant website and got:

Website currently unavailable
The website you are trying to access is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time.
If you are the site owner, here is a help resource to help resolve the issue

by CloudFlare, their DDoS checker...

Yup, we are under attack.

More info: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120749.msg1322799#msg1322799

Will post an update soon

-Charlie

Who stands to gain from DDOS-ing bitinstant?   

He sent us an email with a 10,000 BTC ransom.

Sorry to hear this.

I was just going to the page to check on the status of the Bitcoin card.

[Stapleddiet]

Damn this got moved out of sight quick.

[peepee]

Damn this got moved out of sight quick.

What are you even talking about? It got moved to the appropriate section. 

[Stapleddiet]

Damn this got moved out of sight quick.

What are you even talking about? It got moved to the appropriate section. 

Appropriately appropriated to the appropriate section. Theres is a need for sure, cant have this on the main page.

[peepee]

Appropriately appropriated to the appropriate section. Theres is a need for sure, cant have this on the main page.

What are you rambling about, Old Man?

[evoorhees]

Thanks Yankee. Perhaps I will offer a 1000BTC to a SR hitman and put an end to his efforts. 

The market always finds a way...

[Raoul Duke]

Damn this got moved out of sight quick.

What are you even talking about? It got moved to the appropriate section. 

Appropriately appropriated to the appropriate section. Theres is a need for sure, cant have this on the main page.

What is it that you consider the main page?
AFAIK the main page only displays a list wth all the boards on the forum.

You're dong it wrong if you consider the Bitcoin Discussion board to be the main page...
try this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=unread

[Stapleddiet]

Damn this got moved out of sight quick.

What are you even talking about? It got moved to the appropriate section. 

Appropriately appropriated to the appropriate section. Theres is a need for sure, cant have this on the main page.

What is it that you consider the main page?
AFAIK the main page only displays a list wth all the boards on the forum.

You're dong it wrong if you consider the Bitcoin Discussion board to be the main page...
try this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=unread

I consider the discussion page the main page for up and coming news, no not media news but new stuff thats going on in the bitcoin world. Is it so hard to leave something like this up for awhile on the discussion page.

After all not everyone is versed in the forum as well as the veterans here.

[Akka]

I consider the discussion page the main page for up and coming news, no not media news but new stuff thats going on in the bitcoin world. Is it so hard to leave something like this up for awhile on the discussion page.

After all not everyone is versed in the forum as well as the veterans here.

Show unread posts since last visit is the first button from the top on this page. It is really the easiest way to brose through new/updated Threads in the forum.

You should try it.

[Rotsor]

I'm trying to circumvent the DOS by using the bitinstant API, which seems to respond from time to time. However, I have a problem. I'm getting the quote all right, but when I try to place my order I get an error.

The error message says:

Code:

Exception raised in parsing - object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

.

My request is POST to the following URL: https://www.bitinstant.com/api/json/NewOrder

The POST data I send is the following (private info concealed):

Code:

{"payment_params":{"mtgoxusername":"rotsor","code":"MTGOX-USD-..."},"pay_method":"mtgoxcoupon","quote_id":"d9d59310-..."}

What am I doing wrong, if anything?

By the way, this error message, obviously not indended for the user to see, seems to contradict the "Treating all errors as potential security flaws" policy described at bitinstant.com/security.

[Zeeks]

Don't try to use a service that is currently weathering a DDOS attack, that's just stupid for a large variety of reasons.

[cedivad]

I'm interested in knowing how the hacker bypassed the cloud flare protections.
They are not worth 100000$, but still, they proved themself useful.

[Rotsor]

Don't try to use a service that is currently weathering a DDOS attack, that's just stupid for a large variety of reasons.

Name one.

Avoiding use of services under DDOS only makes DDOS more successful, doesn't it?

[Zeeks]

Don't try to use a service that is currently weathering a DDOS attack, that's just stupid for a large variety of reasons.

Name one.

Avoiding use of services under DDOS only makes DDOS more successful, doesn't it?

Two really simple ones are:

You are adding your own attempts at connecting to and using their service to the large pile of illegitimate ones, essentially adding a small amount of fuel to the fire. If we were talking about one user then that's not really any extra problem but usually it's 100s of users all trying to get access to do whatever they wanted to do with the service which just makes the DDOS that much worse.

You will likely run into all sorts of bugs from lag and overworked hardware on the server side. Maybe not a big deal if your favorite videogame server is being DDOSed, you might die to lag. If you are dealing with financial transactions though the risk is obviously different. See the post above this one for an example.


Those are the big reasons you should lay off of a service in the midst of a DDOS that is heavily affecting their server(s). When the storm is over or when they harden themselves with more hardware or better protections then of course resume.

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

i made the stupid mistake of making two deposits tonight.  one went through immediately but the second one, sent at exactly the same time, isn't even showing up on blockchain.info ...   it's been about 3+ hours.

Second one went out shortly after. Sorry for the delay, but when you do 2 transfers similar amounts and close to each other our fraud filter will ask us to approve the second one, which we did.

Thanks