Regular memeposting will resume as soon as the situation improves.

  • @FecundpossumEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Is literally anything known about the source and motive of these attacks? Like, who could possibly want Lemmy down bad enough to put the time and resources and legal risk into a sustained DDOS campaign? I’m not an Infosec professional by any stretch, so maybe there are elements I’m not understanding here.

    • AgamemnonOPMEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      From what I have gathered on the L.W. Discord - which I also only regard as rumors at best:

      • It is not a sophisticated attack.
      • The attacker is persistent in switching avenues of attack upon closing them.
      • The attacker has not switched strategies, yet.
      • Probably asleep right now and unable to automate the above.

      Typical salty scriptkiddie.

      Motives might be:

      • got banned and/or defederated for any reason (probably a good one) and seeking revenge
      • disagreement over political stances
      • disagreement over moderation policy
      • disagreement over decentralised nature of the fediverse
      • just because
      • @FecundpossumEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        That all sounds pretty logical. Thanks for the explanation.