Perils of Mt. Gox continue as the exchange has revealed early morning today that it has again come under heavy DDoS attack indicating that miscreants are after Bitcoin and trying to manipulate the pricing of the virtual currency.
Some of the most famous private trackers, including What.cd, IPTorrents, HDBits and SceneAccess, went offline after a series of Denial of Service attacks that started on February 13.
The notorious hacking collective – Anonymous, known for some of its Occupy protests, high-profile hacks of government and corporate websites and major leaks has filed a petition with the US Government asking the Obama administration to make Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a legal form of protests.
GoDaddy has claimed that the outage that it suffered from yesterday wasn’t because of any DDoS attack or external events and that Anonymous hacker didn’t have any role to play in the downtime.
Demonoid, one of the most famous BitTorrent tracker site, has been at the receiving end of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack following which it has been inaccessible since about a day and is expected to stay offline for quite some time. Millions of users across the globe were greeted with the message “server busy” instead of the usual welcome screen. Administrator at Demonoid has told TorrentFreak that this time around the issue is not that easy to fix and that beyond DDoS attacks there might be some other forms of attack against the tracker.
Demonoid, one of the most famous BitTorrent tracker site, has been at the receiving end of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack following which it has been inaccessible since about a day and is expected to stay offline for quite some time.