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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eh?

[Dyinobal]

Anyone else get confused with the word "game boss" in the title? I started to think about Yogg Sauron DDosing people.

Happens all the time in China

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

The only notable deviation is that the perps were "detained" in this case and the disruption was large enough that it got some unwanted attention.

Translation: The government cronies paid off by the "detained" individuals had less power than the government officials paid off by people inconvenienced by the DDOS attack.

It wouldn't have made the news at all except the bumbling "hackers" and the bag man (who rented the servers) managed to let their private commercial dispute disrupt DNS services in a couple of provinces. These bag men are just proxies for people in positions of power in the government who are profiting by skimming profits from these illegal servers.

*shrug*

Warcraft

[unlametheweak]

Chinese Game Operator Used DDoS Attacks On Rivals

All is faire in love and Warcraft.