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> Another DDOS attack, I got the server back up.
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post Jul 24 2025, 12:52 PM
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But I don't know how slow it will be...

Unfortunately, in this situation, I don't have the knowledge Andy does on the web configuration. So you will have to suffer with it being slow until he can look at it.

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post Jul 24 2025, 01:00 PM
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Thanks for you efforts Clay.
Recognized the behavior & figured that is what was happening
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post Jul 24 2025, 01:10 PM
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Zoinks, darn hackers!
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post Jul 24 2025, 03:16 PM
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post Jul 25 2025, 10:46 AM
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post Jul 25 2025, 12:53 PM
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What firewall do we have in front of this site? Most (modern fw’s) should have DDoS capabilities.
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post Jul 25 2025, 01:42 PM
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What firewall do we have in front of this site? Most (modern fw’s) should have DDoS capabilities.

We don't have a dedicated firewall. It's shared with other hosted servers in the cluster and we have no control over or access to it.

We only have a software firewall on the server, but that doesn't help against a distributed DDoS attacks with 100k simultaneous connections using rotating spoofed IPs.
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post Jul 25 2025, 03:48 PM
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I just want to understand why someone is targeting such an oddly specific car forum that impacts maybe 200 people on a daily basis
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post Jul 25 2025, 04:34 PM
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QUOTE(ClayPerrine @ Jul 25 2025, 06:52 AM) *

But I don't know how slow it will be...

Unfortunately, in this situation, I don't have the knowledge Andy does on the web configuration. So you will have to suffer with it being slow until he can look at it.

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It is slow like old dial up but working better that the last attack which caused a search to time out, I stay patient and wait but not forgetting the effort you guys put in,ok .
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post Jul 25 2025, 06:10 PM
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QUOTE(Cfletch @ Jul 25 2025, 04:48 PM) *

I just want to understand why someone is targeting such an oddly specific car forum that impacts maybe 200 people on a daily basis

Among other things, because they can. There are people out there like that. If you could do something malicious with zero chance of being caught, would you?
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post Jul 25 2025, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Jul 25 2025, 02:42 PM) *

QUOTE(Jeff_72 @ Jul 25 2025, 11:53 AM) *

What firewall do we have in front of this site? Most (modern fw’s) should have DDoS capabilities.

We don't have a dedicated firewall. It's shared with other hosted servers in the cluster and we have no control over or access to it.

We only have a software firewall on the server, but that doesn't help against a distributed DDoS attacks with 100k simultaneous connections using rotating spoofed IPs.
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Dedicated firewall wouldn't help much. DDoS protection looks at the number of connections coming from a specific address or block of addresses (or parts of the world..). 100k connections coming from what appears to be 100k different addresses; there isn't a way to determine what is valid (you trying to view the Garage) and who is ringing the doorbell and running away.
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post Jul 25 2025, 06:22 PM
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@SirAndy Will the new Forum be susceptible to this type of attacks? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Jul 25 2025, 06:31 PM
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@SirAndy Will the new Forum be susceptible to this type of attacks? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

@76-914

Sadly yes as this has nothing to do with the forum software we're running ...
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post Jul 25 2025, 08:05 PM
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QUOTE(Cfletch @ Jul 25 2025, 04:48 PM) *

I just want to understand why someone is targeting such an oddly specific car forum that impacts maybe 200 people on a daily basis

Among other things, because they can. There are people out there like that. If you could do something malicious with zero chance of being caught, would you?

Thanks ,for the basic explanation ,what are they hoping to gain by hacking ...personal details ,Paypal details ,have no ideas so just asking ?? cheers.
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post Jul 25 2025, 08:21 PM
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Thanks ,for the basic explanation ,what are they hoping to gain by hacking ...personal details ,Paypal details ,have no ideas so just asking ?? cheers.

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Nobody is hacking anything.

DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service".
The only goal is to flood a website with so much traffic that nobody else can use it, hence the denial of service part.

It's usually used for ransom/extortion.
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post Jul 25 2025, 08:26 PM
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Thanks ,for the basic explanation ,what are they hoping to gain by hacking ...personal details ,Paypal details ,have no ideas so just asking ?? cheers.

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Nobody is hacking anything.

DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service".
The only goal is to flood a website with so much traffic that nobody else can use it, hence the denial of service part.

It's usually used for ransom/extortion.
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Thanks Andy ,now better informed cheers.
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post Jul 25 2025, 09:09 PM
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Some folks might consider this a form of terrorism. Thank you guys for all the hard work. It is such a shame they have nothing better to do. There is a whole big world with tons of fun stuff to do.

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