Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals

carusoj writes "An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May, according to police. The escalation began with a distributed denial-of-service attack on a domain registrar that serves many small gaming companies. While the national scale of the effects was unusual, such attacks are common among some small Internet businesses competing to draw customers in China, security researchers say. Police have arrested four people involved in the attack."

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Re:Happens all the time in China

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The hacker community as presented in China by the government of China, aren't necessarily the back yarders that the government of China likes to pretend that they are. With the extensive corruption, a lot of those hackers are paid professionals and, often government agents. This is going to get really out of hand, there will be some interesting political shenanigans going on as technology is used more and more in their political manoeuvrings, disconnections, source private information for leverage, disrupt income sources and simple revenge attacks.

You could see China getting cut off from the net as these attacks spread off shore.