MTGox vs mysterious Russia

[Cusipzzz]

Great work on resolving the problem and defending subsequent DDoS attempts Tux.  This whole event has made me feel a bit more secure with the valuation of BTC.  For such an extensive (multi-day) attack shutting down the largest exchange, the price has barely been affected.  I was expecting a price dump into the $2.00-2.25 range as a result of people getting scared.

All this DDoS did was allow more time for deposits/wires to be added/cleared. That money is going to Gox for 1 reason only: to buy. So you have several days of pent up demand pushing prices higher.

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Back to $3.50 already. I wonder what happened to that guy who sold all his BTC at $3.50.

[Mahkul]

Great work on resolving the problem and defending subsequent DDoS attempts Tux.  This whole event has made me feel a bit more secure with the valuation of BTC.  For such an extensive (multi-day) attack shutting down the largest exchange, the price has barely been affected.  I was expecting a price dump into the $2.00-2.25 range as a result of people getting scared.

Congratulations from me as well. Also, I am proud of our community that we didn't let those incidents affect our faith in Bitcoin. Of course, these attacks were not aimed at the Bitcoin network itself (which is not easy to be attacked), only the websites related to it; nevertheless, some people might have lost faith for a while.

I would love to find out who organised this attack. I wonder would he be equally courageous face to face.

[mewantsbitcoins]

Great work on resolving the problem and defending subsequent DDoS attempts Tux.  This whole event has made me feel a bit more secure with the valuation of BTC.  For such an extensive (multi-day) attack shutting down the largest exchange, the price has barely been affected.  I was expecting a price dump into the $2.00-2.25 range as a result of people getting scared.

Congratulations from me as well. Also, I am proud of our community that we didn't let those incidents affect our faith in Bitcoin. Of course, these attacks were not aimed at the Bitcoin network itself (which is not easy to be attacked), only the websites related to it; nevertheless, some people might have lost faith for a while.

I would love to find out who organised this attack. I wonder would he be equally courageous face to face.

+1 Seems like majority here are in for the long ride.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

Great work on resolving the problem and defending subsequent DDoS attempts Tux.  This whole event has made me feel a bit more secure with the valuation of BTC.  For such an extensive (multi-day) attack shutting down the largest exchange, the price has barely been affected.  I was expecting a price dump into the $2.00-2.25 range as a result of people getting scared.

Congratulations from me as well. Also, I am proud of our community that we didn't let those incidents affect our faith in Bitcoin. Of course, these attacks were not aimed at the Bitcoin network itself (which is not easy to be attacked), only the websites related to it; nevertheless, some people might have lost faith for a while.

I would love to find out who organised this attack. I wonder would he be equally courageous face to face.

+1 Seems like majority here are in for the long ride.

+1

[Mahkul]

... I am proud of our community that we didn't let those incidents affect our faith in Bitcoin. Of course, these attacks were not aimed at the Bitcoin network itself (which is not easy to be attacked), only the websites related to it; nevertheless, some people might have lost faith for a while.

I suppose there was more greed than fear in the face of those ddoses i.e. something along one of the following lines:

-- aha, I now have some time to transfer some money to mtgox before we hit 5$
-- aha, maybe everyone get scared and stop mining and I'll be able to mine a few more bitcoins while difficulty is still lower than 1 million.

[MagicalTux]

Heya,

Attacker is back, and has a new email address (it starts with fuuuuckyouuuuumtgox). I think he's not happy.

Anyway we'll try tweaking the ddos protections to avoid blocking legit traffic, it's going to take a bit more time.

[allinvain]

Wow this attacker is such a loser!

Is there any particular pattern to this attack? Are the majority of IPs from a specific country (I heard Vietnam being mentioned earlier)? Is there any way to directly counter attack his botnet or whatever means he is using to launch this attack? Anything you can do beyond just soak up the bandwidth bitch slap?

[proudhon]

Heya,

Attacker is back, and has a new email address (it starts with fuuuuckyouuuuumtgox). I think he's not happy.

Anyway we'll try tweaking the ddos protections to avoid blocking legit traffic, it's going to take a bit more time.

You'd think he'd of noticed that his attacks have caused a sort of rally behind MtGox, which, I take it, is not what he wants.

[MagicalTux]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex & other russians DDoSing you ?  

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

[MagicalTux]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ? 

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

[FreeMoney]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ? 

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

This is ridiculous. It's really unfortunate that this guy doesn't get economics as well as DDoSing.

[MagicalTux]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ? 

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

This is ridiculous. It's really unfortunate that this guy doesn't get economics as well as DDoSing.

Site seems back up, ISP is doing its job.

[proudhon]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ?  

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

You should tell him that you've taken his request to the Ministry of Bitcoin Exchanges and the Ministry agrees that rates should come down , and, furthermore, the Ministry has decided that the exchange rate will be adjusted so that 1BTC will always equal 1USD forever and henceforth.

[allinvain]

You could also make him an offer he can't refuse...7000 carrots!

[Mahkul]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ? 

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

This is ridiculous. It's really unfortunate that this guy doesn't get economics as well as DDoSing.

Site seems back up, ISP is doing its job.

I am getting:

Code:

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.

[Mahkul]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ? 

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

This is ridiculous. It's really unfortunate that this guy doesn't get economics as well as DDoSing.

Site seems back up, ISP is doing its job.

I am getting:

Code:

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.

Nevermind, it's okay now.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

The ISP support said:

It's largely a TCP option flood.  We are making adjustments to mitigate this and the smaller miscellaneous attacks also targeting the site, it should come online shortly.

What was the actual reason for btcex's DDoSing you ?  

Does he claim that you speculate/manipulate market or what ?

The guy who mailed me requests to pay him $7000 (yep, got $2000 more because I reported him) first told me he wants rates down, then told me he needs the money.

So wait, are you telling me that the 0,65% is so much for him that he actually needed to DDoS you... ?
Or was it about the BTC/USD rate ?

In soviet russia.... money taxes you it seems.

[schnak]

You could also make him an offer he can't refuse...7000 carrots!

ship the guy a crate of 7K carrots?..... I actually think I would like to see that.