DDoS

Who could have guessed that an industry whose entire business model is based on theft would behave like malware attacks on the Internet?

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Artificial intelligence companies are creating incredibly large scale denial of service situations on the infrastructure of Open Source Networks.

Now Network owners need to waste time on Finding ways of sending All These requests of the rogue AI insects to /dev/null

@altbot

#DDoS #DenialOfService #AI #LLM #KDE #crawler #programming #Alibaba #IP #FOSS #attack #OpenSource

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

Last week was another stakeholder meeting on #DNS4EU. #Whalebone provided a short overview of the project including a timeline. Public launch is scheduled for June this year. The talk elaborates on various considerations of the new #DNS project. I was mostly interested in the deployment aspect, the #DDoS slides and the #privacy and #anonymization mechanisms.

My personal main concern with the project is the absence of resolver technology. The project plainly uses the #KnotDNS resolver. Not a bad choice, but University taught me that diversity in the backend software introduces even more resiliency. Yet, as Whalebone is a #Czech company, it is apparent why they chose #KnotDNS exclusively.

The slides are public.

Oh really it was Ukraine that took down X on March 10? Not so fast.

Independent security researchers found evidence that some X origin servers were not properly secured behind DDoS protection, and researchers noted they did not even see Ukraine in the breakdown of the top 20 IP address origins involved in the attacks. https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ #X #Musk #DDoS #cyberattack #cybersecurity #security #Ukraine #BotNet #Internet

No, Elon — X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine

#X marks the botnet: #Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain.

The social media platform formerly known as #Twitter went offline earlier this week. It was swamped by wave after wave of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). Now-owner #ElonMusk (pictured) has been telling everyone the #DDoS traffic came from Ukraine.

O RLY? That’s “garbage,” say experts. In #SBBlogwatch, we never stopped calling it Twitter.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/03/elon-musk-x-ddos-ukraine-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc