Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by dx034 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack
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Re: Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by dx034 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

Third attack within two days. This time they've been offline for 10 hours and counting. Even Cloudflare seems to be unable to help them.

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Post by chews » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 5:19 AM UTC

dx034 wrote: post #2

Third attack within two days. This time they've been offline for 10 hours and counting. Even Cloudflare seems to be unable to help them.

I wonder what sorta rendition flight is being hidden.

Re: Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by bigiain » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

chews wrote: post #3

dx034 wrote: post #2

Third attack within two days. This time they've been offline for 10 hours and counting. Even Cloudflare seems to be unable to help them.

I wonder what sorta rendition flight is being hidden.

adsbexchange.com seems to be up and working...

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Post by artembugara » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

up and running for me (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Re: Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by infoseek12 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 7:20 AM UTC

I REALLY wonder who is behind this attack. I’m going to make a wild ass guess and suppose the attack is connected with the recent uptick in usage among people monitoring flight traffic of planes fighting the Glass Fire in California. Who benefits from disrupting this information channel?

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Post by easytiger » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 7:21 AM UTC

chews wrote: post #3

dx034 wrote: post #2

Third attack within two days. This time they've been offline for 10 hours and counting. Even Cloudflare seems to be unable to help them.

I wonder what sorta rendition flight is being hidden.

When did you first start finding appeal in vague conspiratorial expositions?

Re: Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by secretvrdev » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 7:42 AM UTC

infoseek12 wrote: post #6

I REALLY wonder who is behind this attack. I’m going to make a wild ass guess and suppose the attack is connected with the recent uptick in usage among people monitoring flight traffic of planes fighting the Glass Fire in California. Who benefits from disrupting this information channel?

Probably nobody cared about internal us fires. On the weekend a new war started between Azerbaijan and Armenia. And there are a lot of other wars in that region where someone might hide one or another flights.

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Post by MikeDra » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 7:49 AM UTC

infoseek12 wrote: post #6

I REALLY wonder who is behind this attack. I’m going to make a wild ass guess and suppose the attack is connected with the recent uptick in usage among people monitoring flight traffic of planes fighting the Glass Fire in California. Who benefits from disrupting this information channel?

Turkish hackers. Terrorist Turkey is transporting a lot of missionary jihadists (pays them around 2k) from Syria to fight for Azerbaijan. You don't want those "commercial" planes to appear on flight radar. Do you?

Re: Flightradar24 continues to be offline due to sustained DDoS attack

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Post by dx034 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 9:43 AM UTC

secretvrdev wrote: post #8

infoseek12 wrote: post #6

I REALLY wonder who is behind this attack. I’m going to make a wild ass guess and suppose the attack is connected with the recent uptick in usage among people monitoring flight traffic of planes fighting the Glass Fire in California. Who benefits from disrupting this information channel?

Probably nobody cared about internal us fires. On the weekend a new war started between Azerbaijan and Armenia. And there are a lot of other wars in that region where someone might hide one or another flights.

Apparently Flightaware also had issues which could explain that. ADSBExchange was still up but they're probably just too unknown for attackers to care. If you bring down Flightaware and Flightradar you can prevent most people from tracking those flights.