Bitcoin.org owner reports site hit with 'absolutely massive' DDoS attack
The attack comes just one week after a U.K. court ordered the website to stop hosting the Bitcoin white paper. A website aiming to support the development of Bitcoin has reportedly been hit with a DDoS attack.Cøbra, the pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, reported on Twitter today that the website had been hit with an “absolutely massive” distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack along with a ransom demand for an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin (BTC). At time of publication, Bitcoin.org is still accessible. “Back in the day you could put up a reasonable fight against most DDoS attacks,”....
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The original Bitcoin website Bitcoin.org was hit with an “overwhelming attack” and a ransom demanded. Bitcoin.org Attacked Cøbra, the pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, told his 42,000 followers that the site suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). A DDoS attack is done by artificially flooding a website with traffic to overwhelm it, making it unavailable to […]