43 votes

Sourcehut [open source competitor to Github] is being DDoSed

8 comments

  1. [7]
    nosewings
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    Weirdly, it seems that Codeberg (another open-source Git forge) is also being DDoSed.

    Weirdly, it seems that Codeberg (another open-source Git forge) is also being DDoSed.

    17 votes
    1. [4]
      Crespyl
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      Interestingly, Godot was also under attack (via HN) recently, don't know if it's back up yet.

      Interestingly, Godot was also under attack (via HN) recently, don't know if it's back up yet.

      13 votes
      1. [3]
        CannibalisticApple
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        Looks like it's possibly the same party behind both Godot and Codeburg. At least the message chain is pretty amusing.

        Looks like it's possibly the same party behind both Godot and Codeburg. At least the message chain is pretty amusing.

        23 votes
        1. cfabbro
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          DDOSing free, open-source projects expecting to get a ransom from them. 🤦 And then forgetting to include your wallet address in the ransom email. 🤦

          DDOSing free, open-source projects expecting to get a ransom from them. 🤦
          And then forgetting to include your wallet address in the ransom email. 🤦

          17 votes
        2. jherazob
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          These sound like they have the competence of the average robber bad guy from a kid's comedy movie, let's send Kevin Macallister or the baby from Baby's Day Out at them, that should be more than enough

          These sound like they have the competence of the average robber bad guy from a kid's comedy movie, let's send Kevin Macallister or the baby from Baby's Day Out at them, that should be more than enough

          6 votes
    2. [2]
      tauon
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      It gets “better” still: Kagi, everyone’s favorite small-company paid-for web search engine, have also experienced their longest outage ever yesterday, and in the Kagi Discord the founder has also...

      It gets “better” still: Kagi, everyone’s favorite small-company paid-for web search engine, have also experienced their longest outage ever yesterday, and in the Kagi Discord the founder has also stated they believe a DDoS attack to be behind the issues (a full post mortem report/analysis is slated for Tuesday).


      I really, really wonder who has something to gain from that, even for example state-sponsored actors. It just seems like a threat or annoyance, but even so… It’s not permanent, so what’s the intended effect?

      5 votes
      1. Minty
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        Corporate trust loss

        It’s not permanent, so what’s the intended effect?

        Corporate trust loss

        8 votes