Developing: League of Legends, others' servers get taken down, Dota 2 GC also threatened as DoS atta - Polidicks

[url]http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/30/5258544/lol-dota-2-and-other-game-servers-shut-down-by-group-targeting-twitch[/url] [quote=Polygon]An online group or person going by the name DERP is currently attacking the servers of games that Twitch streamer Phantoml0rd tries to play, according to reports on Reddit and Phantoml0rd's Twitch stream. The group performed DDoS attacks on games and services like Dota 2, League of Legends, Club Penguin and Battle.net as Phantoml0rd began streaming them on his Twitch channel. The group told Phantoml0rd over Twitter that if he lost the Dota 2 match he was streaming, they would attack the game's servers; just as his team took a turn for the worst, the server he was playing on crashed.[/quote] One of the League players has updates going: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1u1pcz/servers_down_discuss_here/cedmyba[/url] Proof of "swatting" (calling the police on someone's home with fake threats): [t]http://i.imgur.com/wquCz0W.png[/t]

I don't understand what kind of enjoyment you can get out of this, yes its fun as all hell being an asshole. But surely there has to be some point where you realize its not funny anymore and you're just being a piece of shit. Hopefully they figure out what little shithead is doing this and make a nice example of him.

omg wow battle.net was taken down so much instead of loading instantly it's taking 2 seconds to load what an amazing attack!!!

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43362448][url]http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/30/5258544/lol-dota-2-and-other-game-servers-shut-down-by-group-targeting-twitch[/url] One of the League players has updates going: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1u1pcz/servers_down_discuss_here/cedmyba[/url] Proof of "swatting" (calling the police on someone's home with fake threats): [t]http://i.imgur.com/wquCz0W.png[/t][/QUOTE] reddit confirmed for dead, we are next

What the shit is this.

PhantomL0rd is one of my favorite streamers, I reaaaaaally hope he doesn't have anything to do with this beyond him speaking to them. God damnit you assholes I JUST bought Arcade Sona and you do this to me.

It's so funny to watch this shit :D Everyone's going crazy on twitter and twitch.

Wonder if there is any connection between this and Champions Online just going dead like an hour ago. I'm going through the backlog of stuff to see how much better it runs with the new parts I got for Christmas for the record.

[QUOTE=Jetblack357;43362496]yes its fun as all hell being an asshole. But surely there has to be some point where you realize its not funny anymore and you're just being a piece of shit[/QUOTE] wait so being an asshole is fun as hell but you're also supposed to care about what others think?

[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;43362501]omg wow battle.net was taken down so much instead of loading instantly it's taking 2 seconds to load what an amazing attack!!![/QUOTE] I'd say taking down Reddit is no small feat personally.

[quote]DERP[/quote] These groups sure know how to come up with stupid names.

Yikes; this is wrong on so many levels.

I've got to say, this is fairly impressive, at least in the "it's caught my attention" sense. I'll just head out for a bit and wait for the whole thing to blow over. DDoSing Reddit is pretty wild, too. Gotta have a good amount of power to do that.

Phantom just said "Police are here getting IP info". I believe the ventrilo server they were supposedly using is about to be raided. [QUOTE=SystemGS;43362616]I've got to say, this is fairly impressive, at least in the "it's caught my attention" sense. I'll just head out for a bit and wait for the whole thing to blow over. DDoSing Reddit is pretty wild, too. Gotta have a good amount of power to do that.[/QUOTE] They didn't touch reddit, the combined effect of fans trying to get up to speed and randoms wondering what's going on are too much legitimate traffic for the /r/LoL specific server(s) to hold. /r/gaming for example is fine. Edit: for a given value of fine.

Shit reddit IS pretty much down. This group must have some serious clout in terms of DDos machines, as well as some SERIOUS issues if they think this is ok or even supposed to be a thing in the first place.

[QUOTE=commandhat;43362634]Phantom just said "Police are here getting IP info". I believe the ventrilo server they were supposedly using is about to be raided.[/QUOTE] A pissed off league player has tracked down and released all the info on the guy doing it. I think DERP might have aimed a bit high here and have gotten himself into some serious shit.

[QUOTE=K0ppel;43362656]A pissed off league player has tracked down and released all the info on the guy doing it.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't recommend you guys post links here. Otherwise, the mods here will likely get mad at you.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43362667]I wouldn't recommend you guys post links here. Otherwise, the mods here will likely get mad at you.[/QUOTE] According to the reddit thread, people posting it on streams are getting banned by Twitch staff. Those guys must have a seriously large botnet.

What's with all the DDoSing related to video games recently? First Rust gets DDoSed because some Francophones threw a temper tantrum over something small, now this guy is DDoSing popular video games because his favorite internet man was losing a video game.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;43362667]I wouldn't recommend you guys post links here. Otherwise, the mods here will likely get mad at you.[/QUOTE] For obvious reasons I won't post the link, if someone insists they can find it themselves but I'm distancing myself the fuck away from anything.

[QUOTE=Ziron;43362688]What's with all the DDoSing related to video games recently? First Rust gets DDoSed because some Francophones threw a temper tantrum over something small, now this guy is DDoSing popular video games because his favorite internet man was losing a video game.[/QUOTE] Rust was different, that's an issue with the network library ( I believe ) EDIT: Seems like it's a mixture of the two (see Max's post)

I'm glad Facepunch isn't popular enough to get this kind of attention.

Reddit's down!

[QUOTE=Adzter;43362710]Rust was different, that's an issue with the network library ( I believe )[/QUOTE] Yeah, but it's still throwing a giant temper tantrum and DDoSing games because of something small. You have to be pretty fucked up or really immature to think DDosing is a good response to "i want something in a game" or "some internet streamer man is not doing good in a game". Granted, this is probably some know-it-all teenage script-kiddie trying to get e-cred and not really about the streamer, but it's still ridiculous.

[QUOTE=Adzter;43362684]According to the reddit thread, people posting it on streams are getting banned by Twitch staff. Those guys must have a seriously large botnet.[/QUOTE] I actually found a zombie machine and cleaned it. derp chatted with me over vent and asked if they could have the computer back, I told them "fuck off, ruining other gamer's fun for no reason, even if it's by your definition really shitty fun, is a stupid idea." Then my absolutely worthless website got taken down.

[QUOTE=Keychain;43362745]I'm glad Facepunch isn't popular enough to get this kind of attention.[/QUOTE] remember crysis 2 leak???????

Phantom is back! The cops didn't arrest him! Edit: nevermind, he hasn't chatted since typing that. Could just be a cop trying to ease worries.

His stream's still down for me?

[QUOTE=Ziron;43362758]Yeah, but it's still throwing a giant temper tantrum and DDoSing games because of something small. You have to be pretty fucked up or really immature to think DDosing is a good response to "i want something in a game" or "some internet streamer man is not doing good in a game". Granted, this is probably some know-it-all teenage script-kiddie trying to get e-cred and not really about the streamer, but it's still ridiculous.[/QUOTE] It's probably because any 12 year old can rent a botnet from HackForums with their parents card.

[QUOTE=Adzter;43362710]Rust was different, that's an issue with the network library ( I believe )[/QUOTE] It was basically DDOSing, except instead of throwing enormous amounts of bandwidth at the servers they threw tiny corrupted-just-the-right-way packets