Steam servers suffer DDoS attack
Steam has suffered repeated DDoS attacks that have knocked its storefront down throughout Thursday evening, with a pair of troublemakers claiming responsibility on Twitter.
Steam's servers have been hit with intermittent outages throughout Thursday evening, leaving users unable to access Valve's storefront. A pair of Twitter users called chF and Larceny have claimed responsibility for the outages, hitting Steam with repeated DDoS attacks.
Valve has not responded to the attacks through either its Facebook or Twitter feeds.
The attacks coincide with the final day of Steam's Winter Sale. Shacknews has contacted Valve for further information on the attacks and whether the downtime will affect the end of the sale.
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Steam has suffered repeated DDoS attacks that have knocked its storefront down throughout Thursday evening, with a pair of troublemakers claiming responsibility on Twitter.-
Apparently Origin was hit too. Do these groups ever state their motivation for DDoS attacks? I mean, what did Valve do to them?
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Their motivation is, "Because we can." Since that's all that matters to some people.
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Also Black Hat logic.
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Touché!!
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Some men don't want anything logical, some men just want to see the world DDOS'd
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cis het scum
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Origin and Steam are not big. DDos have taken out amazon, ebay, visa, mastercard, etc. Those are big
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the anatomy of a DDoS is actually pretty simple. when you send a ping, you send a small, 8 byte file across the internet to your destination and wait get a response in which it send a packet back. For a DDoS, it's this on a much larger scale. You can increase packet sizes, and thanks to malware, there are tons of zombies on the internet that can be used for such purposes. It doesn't always require a check book, and lots of places disable ICMP to prevent this sort of thing from being done, but there are ways around that. All it takes is knowing a DNS and having access to a number of servers through various means and having all those servers send a request at the same time to cause a DDoS.
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Over twitter with much circle jerking and fedora tipping?
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It's mostly a cry for attention.
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shit like this pisses me off so much. Same with people who create viri.
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Not sure if it's the same people / group but SOE were DDoS'd on New Years Day too.. they were supposed to be aiming to take down PS2 but ended up taking most SOE online games with it (EQ, EQ2 etc)
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Im trying to buy something before the sale is over :(
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Hmmm... Steam offering amazing Christmas sales, and then a couple days into the New Years someone decides they're ripe for an attack.
It didn't work, they were up before I woke up this morning. -
Good thing I prefer buying boxed copies. No worries about it going offline
