» DDOS Attack - 22-01 at 13:31:52 from TM

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During the past 16 hours we have been attacked by a botnet (DDOS). These attacks are normally paid for by people with some kind of agenda. In Denmark, these days we have a trial against a terrorrist that have caused quite some anger from certain parts of the world, and from the location of the attacks this trial and the attack is most likely related. The attack simulated more than 200.000 online at a given time.

The normal procedure is unfortunately just to wait it out, because botnets weaken during these attacks, as people find out they have a trojan on their computer and cant use the internet and thus either turn it off or fix it with antivirus scans. Usually with a DOS attack (denial of service), you can just block a certain region or country from accessing the site, but with DDOS attacks the attack comes from all around the world, rendering this method useless.

I managed to postponed most of the transfers, they will be postponed even more as they all expire at the same time tomorrow.

Our host said to me yesterday that the longest DDOS attack they had seen was 2½ hours, this one has lasted 16 - when it started, before our hosts ISP took off our IP, it rendered some of Denmarks biggest sites unaccessible because of the size, even though it was towards us.
Lets all hope this will not happen again soon, I know I at least slept horrible, the few hours of sleep I got.

As an example of a DDOS attack, during the wikileaks scandals just a few weeks ago visa.com was down for 3 days during a ddos attack.
We hope to be back very soon.
The TM Team