Zedwork

This morning (UK time) we suffered an attack on Zedwork's infrastructure. A Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) had been directed at Zedwork by a player, or group of players who had joined LVS.

The attack began shortly before 7:17AM, and all traffic was vacuumed up by our DDoS protection, all attack packets mitigated with only legitimate player data getting through to the server.

The attack ended at 7:29AM, without success.

The players who began the attack were quite eager to enjoy the server grinding to a hault, and seemed a little excited to hear a few players speak of lag (it can take up to 2 minutes after an attack has been identified before our DDoS mitigation fully kicks in), but soon there were no more problems and they had to log out in failure

DDoS attacks can also be quite expensive, which would be why the attack only lasted 12 minutes. I enjoy the idea that it cost them money to commit their failure.

I thought you'd all like to know

Splendid work Zed!

Wow! Some people need to get out more….

I didn't know the DDos attack reached minecraft servers as well. I was aware that it had hit League of Legends, Club Penguin, and a YouTuber's paypal.

DDoS attacks are common amongst larger MC servers. It's just something that has to be dealt with. Large attacks are not so common, this was not so large. DDoS attacks have gotten easier, there are actually companies one could pay a sum of money to who will carry out attacks on call. Where-as it used to require the perpetrator to own, or have illigitimately aquired access to, all the participating computers for such an attack.

What an age we live in :')

We were the target of another DDoS today, this one lasted for a full hour before ultimately giving up. We seem to be getting popular ^_^ Shame our popularity is with DDoS kiddies…

Well now, i kinda wish i was there to back you up boss. :/ Great Job defending the server!! <3 You're the bestest boss man around~ <3