WAVES ICO Could Have Been Easily Confused with DDoS Attack
Waves, the blockchain based platform raises a record-breaking $2 million within 24 hours of announcing the crowdfunded ICO. DDoS attacks take the top position in the list of threats faced by the online platforms. The Distributed Denial of Service attack is a method of cyber-attack where a website or a platform’s server is overloaded by request bombardment. These artificially generated requests generally end up crashing the server. It is one of the most common forms of cyber attack. WAVES, a cryptocurrency technology based open blockchain platform experienced a similar situation yesterday....
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The internet infrastructure and risk-mitigating company, Cloudflare Inc., reportedly prevented the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this month, calling it the most volumetric attack the company has recorded to date. The attack in question was aimed at a crypto platform. The number of requests per second (rps) of the current DDoS attack […]
Bitcoin exchange BTE-C has reported via its official Twitter account that it is, at this time, experiencing a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack that may or may not be affecting all services. The uncertainty comes from the lack of explanation from BTC-E. The tweet, which only reads "DDos #btce" (pictured above), seemingly speaks for itself, however. Bitcoin exchanges are often targets of DDOS attacks, but many have learned to deal with these situations as a result of being victims multiple times (see Mt. Gox). More updates as they become available.
The recent DDoS attack faced by Coinsecure led to a temporary disruption of services. Cryptocurrency platforms across the world are constantly under the threat of various forms of cyberattacks. While the attackers’ intentions may be several, they are generally of no good. Yesterday, Coinsecure — a leading Indian Bitcoin trading and blockchain services company became a target of one such attack. According to the company’s communication to its customers, the platform came under a DDoS attack which forced them to disable most of its services for few hours. The attack on Coinsecure seems to be....
Bitcoin.org is currently under a DDoS attack making the site inaccessible. The attack is currently being discussed on IRC. Transcript of the discussion: [20:10] <@jgarzik> saivann, https://bitcoin.org not working here. [20:12] < michagogo> Hm, same here. [20:12] * michagogo checks http://isup.me/bitcoin.org. [20:13] < michagogo> Not pinging, either. [20:15] < saivann> Sigh, probably one of these strong DDoS attacks; again, let me check. [20:19] < saivann> Yes, 10gbps DDoS attack, Black Lotus does not protect; us against those, they nullroute the IP until the attack is under 10gbps; and....