EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack

mellow marsh writes "EveryDNS, sister company to OpenDNS (which runs the PhishTank anti-phishing initiative), has been hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack started sometime Friday afternoon and, from all indications, was targeting Web sites that used free DNS management services provided by EveryDNS. At the height of the DDoS bombardment, EveryDNS was being hit with more than 400mbps of traffic at each of its four locations around the world. From the article: '"We were collateral damage," Ulevitch explained... Because law enforcement is involved, Ulevitch was hesitant to release details of the actual target but there are signs that some of the targets were "nefarious domains" that have since been terminated.'" OpenDNS, which makes use of EveryDNS services, was affected for a time, until they spread their authoritative DNS more broadly. The EveryDNS site is now reporting that the attack is continuing but has been mitigated and is not affecting operations.

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Re:Botnet? Cal it what it is!

[Chris Tucker]

However, compared to the tens of thousands of 0wned Windows boxes, 0wned Linux boxes are what, a fraction of a percent of the Windows zombies?

And you weer able to fix it. Try fixing a zombiefied Windows machine, short of pulling the infected drive and replacing it with a fresh, virgin drive.

Which will be 0wned after 30 minutes connected to the Net, due to the POS that is Windows, coupled with the ignorance of the bog-standard Windows luser.