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

krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca
Fri Mar 29 17:20:00 UTC 2013


On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:05:09 -1000
"Kent Backman" <kent at kentbackman.com> wrote:

> The list has been very helpful, and helped me gather more information.
> Appreciate all the responses.  The botnet is certainly there, but the
> targets seem to be much more constrained than I first thought.  It *is* just
> me. Only nodes that someone could associate with me are being targeted. An
> exit node I setup last night with a nearly default torrc file on a different
> ISP was clean.

Are they are using the MyFamily declaration or your contact info to select which nodes to attack?


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