Cyberattack – November 2023

I&#x27;ve got a theory that DDOS services need to &quot;demonstrate&quot; their abilities to the black market, to prove that they&#x27;re legitimate. Blender is an ideal target: high profile, with enough technical expertise to post and publish the details of the DDOS.<p>Its not that anyone &quot;wanted&quot; to hurt Blender per se. Its that the DDOS service &#x2F; black hat group wants to publicly demonstrate themselves and advertise their services.<p>At least, that&#x27;s my running theory why otherwise &quot;innocent&quot; projects (like Blender) get attacked like this. Anyone have any other theories why Blender could be targeted?

While technically correct, I wish everyone would stop calling DDoS attacks &quot;cyberattack&quot;. When I saw the headline I envisioned a supply-chain attack and was half-expecting that I&#x27;d need to reinstall my machine and rotate all credentials.<p>In 99% of cases, a DDoS is much less concerning than most other kinds of attacks.

&gt; The issue was resolved by moving behind a dedicated DDoS mitigation service, and the attack stopped at the end of the day.<p>Step one, create DDoS mitigation service.<p>Step two attack random high traffic sites with advertising and covert DDoS attacks.<p>Profit?

&quot;attack&quot;? or just heavy bots they were not prepared to handle?<p>many experienced that heavy (IP changing) bot called something like &quot;thesis test&quot; this month...