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Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby GUARD!AN on Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:32 am

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the delay, but I have gotten to the bottom of the recent attacks on Tempest and Impulse.

Using a network protocol analyzer, I found there was a flood of requests, aka a DOS (Denial of Service) attack from the IP address 68.232.181.10:


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A quick geolocation trace and ISP lookup reveals it is actually a corporation named Choopa that was attacking the servers:


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Going to the website, they are a dedicated server provider that was attacking my custom built cloud (in what appears to be a ruse to sabotage all other servers in an attempt to drive traffic and customers to them)


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I blocked their IP from making any requests to my cloud, and as for my next steps...luckily I have all kinds of numerous legal resources at my disposal lately 8-)
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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby Wanderer on Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:33 am

;) smooth moves by the Guardian of Tempest.

lol pun.
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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby piipe on Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:03 am

ya.. that's why u are the big boss here :lol: :lol:

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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby Turquoise Dragon on Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:38 pm

THANK YOU GUARD-DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bow to your geek/jan godness.
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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby MajorMajor on Fri Dec 28, 2012 12:59 pm

I really hate corporate espionage. Go hand them their asses.
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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby Turquoise Dragon on Fri Dec 28, 2012 1:10 pm

MajorMajor wrote:I really hate corporate espionage. Go hand them their asses.


Get the mafia involved. Something with fingers and either a ball-peen hammer or a circular saw should do the trick.


Then again, no such thing as the mafia.
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Re: Recent Tempest and Impulse Attacks

Postby Ramshi on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:23 pm

I really hate corporate espionage. Go hand them their asses.


HEAR HEAR

Anyway, if anything interesting happens, send me a replay :D
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