DDoS Round 12

[Bigmike001]

The Economics of DDoS Attack Costs

Ordering a simple, small-scale DDoS attack can cost as little as $7: but the DDoS as a service market offers far wider-ranging and more expensive options. Some services allow for a customer to choose a specific attack scenario, and combine different forms of attack depending on the victim’s own circumstances.

Considering one report from cybersecurity researcher Denis Makrushin, ongoing attacks can cost around $20 per hour to conduct, with the provider further offering bonus points and hours in their own version of a loyalty scheme.

When delving into DDoS providers’ profit margins, compare this with the price of virtual servers: Amazon EC2 servers with next-to-no-configuration cost less than $0.007 per hour. 50 of these for a simple attack against an eCommerce store would only cost the cybercriminals around $0.325 for each hour of active attack.

Throw in some additional costs, like a burner SIM card to register the AWS account and a credit card to it, the hourly cost of performing a simple DDoS attack can be as low as $4.

It doesn't make any sense. If it was that cheap, what would prevent Microsoft themselves from anonymously ordering mass DDoS to get rid of literally every WoW server? And then asking the legal DDoS protections providers to snitch on the remaining ones?

because they are huge compare to octowow private server

[Mrcreppy1]

We need clear solutions.. for me the next solution is to pay for the real server sadly.

[Arriono]

My friends stopped playing on the server today I was left alone

[Mrtinkles]

Perhaps its not about how to defense against ddos? is there a chance that we are the bad guys?

I went download capybara today, and i found my old twow asia server account is still there, and my mage with t3 set is still there lol.

if digging into technical way can't protect the server, perhaps octowow owners should consider business methods, afterall private server is not really a charity server but another profitable business act, and you want to have a peaceful environment when u r trying to grow a business. and this community is everything for octowow. please dont let your fans down.

oh and btw, its so obvious capybara owns or has some sort of business relation to ravencraft. after blizzard took turtle wow to california court, turtle wow EU is shut down and forever gone with its codes and player database. capybara is turtle wow asia server and is the only one who has the latest turtle wow codes, and its so obvious its capybara who's behind the ddos atk on octowow for its EU franchise server ravencraft. Question is, who attack first? by default we think they attacked us, but is it really? could it be a chance that we attack them first?

why do you wanna allow chinese to be able download octowow in chinese client with fully addons pre-installed? while capybara is only designed for chinese wow gamers, the only language there is chinese? if i am the owner of capybara, i would see octowow chinese game client as an act of war. get it? regardless how cheap or expansive the ddos attack is, capybara has a population 5 folds octowow, do you really wanna take the chance of hurting your EU gamer community go to war with them for chinese donations?

Your old account only exists because it was a twow asia server account. Capy only restored accounts for that twow region because that's the only database they had access to. Everyone else has to start fresh, even on Capy.

Regarding the notion that offering the chinese client is an act of war is kind of silly. What if Octo is just trying to be considerate to people who live in NA/EU and speak chinese as a first language?

It'd be different if Octo created an SEA server for people to play on. But they didn't. However... some people believe, with decent evidence, that Capy set up Ravencraft to get the EU market. If that's true, then who's the greedy bad guy in that scenario?

[Cml]

Rooting for you, Octo. Find a solution, i'll be patient.
Respect.

[Meeemem]

Blizzard, Ravencraft, CapybaraWow, Twow staff what else guys ?

If you know who it is then do something about it and stop crazytalk. We don't know nothing.
Be patient, and let the professionals handle it. Dark times we are all angry but anger is not the right path.
Who actually said it or rather, do we really know who it was? If not, why are you even digging into it?
And if we do know, what are you going to do about it? Also if the devs wanted to update us they will

[Shaheen]

Kestrel,

Is there an ETA as to when we will be migrated over to what you previously referred to as FlokiNET's "highest tier of DDoS protection?" Can you expand upon this service and how it differs from what they currently providing? How complicated and time consuming is this process?

There's some speculation on the Discord forums regarding backordered or out-of-stock hardware (and waiting for a 10Gbe port adapter). It's unclear as to what exactly this hardware will do and how long it will take for everything to be implemented at this point. Also, are you waiting on FlokiNET to complete 100% of everything necessary on their end?

Any information you can provide would help greatly. Thank you.

[Koleto]

We need clear solutions.. for me the next solution is to pay for the real server sadly.

thats what i meant when i said blizz has won alteast there our time will not be wasted for nothing but i don't want to supp blizz hasn't since SL

[Nickman]

My friends stopped playing on the server today I was left alone

tranquilo bro, yo me voy con ellos jaja

[Glimmer91]

Fuck those people.
Hope their life's servers gets DDoSed and it comes to a mortal disconnect.