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Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-For-Hire Listings (softpedia.com)

Posted by msmash on from the pissing-off-the-wrong-guys dept.

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.

17 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. WTF is Fiverr? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Must trying to get noticed... seemed to have worked.

    1. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Must trying to get noticed... seemed to have worked.

      It is a site where you can pay people to do tasks, or earn money by doing tasks. Originally, you paid $5, but most people charge more than that now. I have hired several people to do things, including some graphic design, some voice-overs for apps, writing copy, etc. My 15 year old daughter has earned money on Fiverr writing fake Amazon reviews.

    2. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by dugancent · · Score: 1

      I maxed out my dropbox referrals with Fiverr.

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      SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
    3. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Way to go teaching your daughter some solid moral values there!

    4. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 1

      By this logic, would she be a whore even if she mowed a lawn or served lunches at McDonalds for money?

      --
      My first program:

      Hell Segmentation fault

    5. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by sjames · · Score: 1

      Yes, she should have a bright future as a con artist.

    6. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by sjames · · Score: 1

      Only if she only pretends to mow the lawn or serve lunches.

    7. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 2

      I see -- like an actress, for instance?

      --
      My first program:

      Hell Segmentation fault

    8. Re: WTF is Fiverr? by bloodhawk · · Score: 1

      teaching a kid to be a con artist, while probably fits in quite well with the real world, is a pretty sad state of parenting.

    9. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by gsslay · · Score: 1

      So basically it's the go-to site for cheap-ass employers and their con-artist in training daughters?

      Nice. There's a recommendation any website would envy.

    10. Re:WTF is Fiverr? by radarskiy · · Score: 1

      "Amazon are utterly immoral and it is ethical to do whatever possible to reduce their value."

      Arsonists exists, therefore we should pre-emptively burn everything down.

  2. Anyone else miss the old days? by gmack · · Score: 1

    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?

  3. Unpossible by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

    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"?

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
  4. DDoS protection testing by charronia · · Score: 1

    Nice server you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.

  5. Fiverr did the right thing by Igal+Zeifman · · Score: 1

    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.

  6. Re:This thread gave me cancer by gsslay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this kind of dumb recursive logic doesn't stop where it suits you to stop.

    The economy is being raped, and you're worried about some anonymous slashdot commentary about some fifteen year old writing reviews that no one is probably going to ever read, that no one is probably going to ever read.

    Where's your perspective?

  7. Re:In Ye Olden Days by Keybounce · · Score: 1

    Ha. Back when SlashDot wasn't corporate, when the volume of articles was small enough to keep up with, when there were enough readers that actually went to the article. ... Hmm, how much has /. changed?

    http:///..com