23 Mar
2006
23 Mar
'06
4:27 p.m.
On 23 Mar 2006, at 16:54, Martin Lathoud wrote:
One of our web servers got hammered by ~5K req/s for hours from browsers with the following referer: http://www.freewebs.com/ihatespammers/nospam.html Both freewebs.com and their network provider Cogent has been contacted without any visible result
I found freewebs very responsive, I emailed them and they shut the site down instantly. It's likely the originators of the DDOS are the Yambo gang out of Ukraine. Other hosts involved in this attack are located on Chinese IPs we know to be under the control of Yambo... http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listing.lasso?-op=cn&spammer=Yambo% 20Financials Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org