I worked in games for a few years. We constantly got DoS'd. Probably twice a week. Luckily our content was extremely cachable, so once it happened a few times we just black holed stuff through Fastly. The attacks weren't super sophisticated, mostly just hitting a public endpoint a ton of times or trying to crawl API endpoints.
DoS attacks against my online game
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Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#52Maybe try implementing a reverse proxy, it would mask your real IP address.
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think OVH is viable in this case, they do mitigate the attack but in my personal experience they also mitigate legit traffic during the attack. Mind you, this is a process using a single port, with only around 100 active connections. You'll easily see half if not more lose connection during a DDoS attack.
I did notice that a few years back, but now when the filter activate I no longer see any drop in bandwidth usage or any customer complaints. How long ago did you experimented with their filter?
Hmm good point, I haven't had any complaints for awhile. Maybe I'll look into it again see what happens.
Thanks for the heads up :)
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#54I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Out of curiosity as well as sheer ignorance; isn't AWS Shield designed to help with DDoS? was it more complex or expensive or not applicable?
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#55I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Also CHINA does this to all NON-CHINA games. Think about why gaming and crypto-currency is banned now. It's because they are weaponizing their hacks and bullshit in gaming so that you either have to play their game and basically be hacked. Or give up playing your game all together. If anyone has questions about this please consult any recent hardcore PVP game.
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#56I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.
I think it can be cheaper to initiate these types of attacks than to defend against them. Just pissing someone off with an extra $20 to spend can give you a bad day
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.
I think it can be cheaper to initiate these types of attacks than to defend against them. Just pissing someone off with an extra $20 to spend can give you a bad day
Well damn. The more you know.
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Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#58I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Why was no attempt at legal action taken?
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#59I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates. IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the a…
Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.
I doubt it's their income they're spending.
Re: DoS attacks against my online game
#60Why would someone DoS a small free game?
Because they are a teenage sociopath. (Quoting from the article: "... since the attacker was a minor ...")
That was a previous attacker, not the one now. The article does not give any identifying information about the new attacker except they know who he is, but don't have the data to prove it. Look at the top of the paragraph quoted to see this.