Attack of the Bot Army

A few days ago, one of my favorite email provider seemed to be constantly unavailable. Several users on Twitter expressed their anguish at having to pay for email service (this being more secure as opposed to the free ones), and yet being unable to access their emails.

The email service provider soon issued an apology outlining what they perceived to be an unexpected “Nation sponsored” attack attack. It soon became clear that this was a clear case of hacktivism rather than activism. Apparently, a hacker group were testing a beta version of a service that they were planning to launch & had chosen this email provider at random.

While the email support team kept diligently replying back to the users, the incident got a bit out of hand when their CTO angered the hactivists which led to an even more longish & sustained attack. Technically these two teams were at war & I got my most recent brush with a DDOS attack.

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