[tor-relays] Ongoing denial of service attack against Tor relays by leased botnet in America and PRC (Nobistech, Datashack, Limestone, HE, Pegtech, WholeSale Interent, and Psychz VPS nodes, etc)

[Barack Obama]

How do you know if it's a DDOS attack rather than normal traffic?


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net>wrote:

> On 28.03.2013 11:13, Kent Backman wrote:
> > Over the last several weeks, I have collected substantial evidence
> > indicating that a botnet is degrading the Tor anonymity network in its
> > entirety via a sustained denial of service attack.
>
> I don't have much time right at the moment (sorry), and I don't outright
> reject your observations. Maybe you are interested in our exit relay
> statistics (cpu/memory/etc). We have US exits as well (axigy1/axigy2).
> If there was something out of the ordinary happening to these servers, I
> am sure the ISP would have told me (we are in daily contact via Instant
> Messenger).
>
> https://www.torservers.net/munin/
>
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> Moritz Bartl
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