From November 9 to November 19 two of our domains were unter attack by cyber-criminals. Due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS) involving thousands of remote controlled zombie computers directed from a secret control centre, some of our sites were inaccessible for several days.
First we received an automated warning email from our webhost, which [...]
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Our site got hit by a Denial-of-Service attack
November 22nd, 2007 · 9 Comments
Anti-Fraud sites under attack
September 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Several of the main sites dedicated to fighting online scams are currently inaccessible because of a “Denial of service” (DoS) attack.
Fraudwatchers.com, aa419.org, 419eater.com and occassionally thescambaiter.com have been offline. Thescambaiter.com and 419eater.com are two of the oldest sites that fight “419″ scams (named of the section in the Nigerian penal code that prohibits fraud). [...]
Tags: 419 · Computers · botnets
Denial-of-service attacks hit anti-spam sites
June 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
If you’re a regular vistor to some of our websites you may have noticed that the server was down for much of the last 48 hours. This was due to an online attack known as a ‘distributed denial of service attack’ (DDoS). In the first two hours alone computers with over 1000 different IP addresses [...]