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Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-For-Hire Listings (softpedia.com)
Two days after Fiverr, a marketplace for digital services, removed user listings from its website that advertised DDoS-for-hire services, the company's website suffered a six-hour long DDOS attack. Softpedia reports: The incident took place on the morning of May 27 (European timezones), and the service admitted its problems on its Twitter account. At the time of writing, Fiverr has been back up and functioning normally for more than two hours. Fiverr's problems stem from an Incapsula probe that found DDoS-for-hire ads on its marketplace, available for $5. Incapsula reported the suspicious listings to Fiverr, who investigated the issue and removed the ads. Fiverr first removed all listings advertising blatantly illegal DDoS services, but later also removed the ads offering to "test" a website for DDoS "protection" measures.
Must trying to get noticed... seemed to have worked.
Until it got DDoSed and posted on /.
Anyone else miss the old days when breaches resulted in a trashed machine so only the owner of the machine had to suffer for their lack of security?
Posting something on /. was a WAY to DDoS someone.
Wow, who coulda seen THAT coming? (Besides everyone, I mean.)
It's like closing the bazaar where the arms dealers sell their wares, effectively removing the source of their income....do you think they aren't going to use some of their hardware on you to "correct" that "problem"?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I'm not really into that breathless and brainless repeating of others thing, sorry.
I would have bought a Cloudflare premium account before doing that if I was them
Nice server you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.
It could not have happened to a nicer (sic) company. The so-called gig economy takes people's real and valuable skills and reduces it to sweatshop compensation. Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk represent all of what is despicable about capitalism. I smiled when I read Fiverr got DDoS'd. Hopefully that cost them a bundle.
As one of the researches and authors of the original post (https://www.incapsula.com/blog/unmasking-ddos-for-hire-fiverr.html) I`m surprised to see the negative reactions towards Fiverr. Whatever your position is on gig economy--and I can understand both sides of the argument--in this case the Fiverr team deserves to be commended for their actions. Fiverr is a huge marketplace and it’s unreasonable to expect them to proactively screen all sellers and their offerings. However, once notified, they moved quickly to investigate and ban the DDoS-for-hire providers, removing them all in just under 48 hours. That's more that I can say about many other companies that knowingly provide their services to the same crooks. They did the right thing. I wish more would do the same.
So, in this thread we learn that if someone's fifteen year old daughter makes money by writing fake amazon reviews, then that makes her and her parent sociopathic, whore con-artists. While I suppose there might be some moral issues with writing fake reviews for money (which is really questionable since Amazon doesn't do anything to stop it, like, I don't know, actually making sure the reviewer bought the product?), can people get a fucking grip? They're fucking Amazon reviews, not priceless works of art being fabricated. I mean people turn them into jokes all the fucking time and no-one bats an eye. The economy is being raped, and you all are worried about some fifteen year old writing reviews that no one is probably going to ever read. Get some motherfucking perspective!