OcUK DDoS attack - £10,000 reward

[Rroff]

Theres a long thread about this on their forums heh... funny didn't realise how many people use OCuk til this happened - posts springing up at loads of forums I frequent.

 

[inflynx]

I was about to buy some hardware today from OCUK but the web site was down (and still is). Hope this gets resolved soon.

Kinda disappointed as I was hoping to get a graphics card for tomorrow delivery - this is the only day I can be at home to recieve it

 

[Azza]

Hope you guy get this sorted very soon.

Very sad of someone to do this really.

 

[shifty_uk]

that should do it, scared him off i bet.


everything back to normal people, crisis over.

Until it happens again?

 

[ConTRo13R]

Could it maybe all of us? Trojan loaded onto the ocuk servers, downloads onto our computers when we access the site, so essentially we become the botnet?

 

[ChrisJSY]

Good luck finding out but I don't see how anyone's in the public is going to help without access to your servers/hosting. In which case they should be on the case.

 

[gumbald]

Could it maybe all of us? Trojan loaded onto the ocuk servers, downloads onto our computers when we access the site, so essentially we become the botnet?

Speak for yourself, there's nothing on my machine.

 

[Fothsn]

Theres a long thread about this on their forums heh... funny didn't realise how many people use OCuk til this happened - posts springing up at loads of forums I frequent.

Say again?

 

[Wiggins]

Perfectly safe, all that is happening is a lot of people are trying to access our site at the same time bringing it down.

Yes. Security has not been compromised. However, server uptime has so if you have problems call us on one of these numbers.

Sales - UK 0870 443 0880
Sales - International +44 870 443 0880
Support - UK 0871 222 8528
Support - International +44 871 222 8528
Systems Support - UK 0871 222 8529
Systems Support - International +44 871 222 8529

Thanks.

One more thing.

Do you want this broadcast around the net? A few friends are willing to post it on blogs. Hell, it might be worth creating a Facebook account dediated to finding the tit.

 

[Benimaru]

I was wonder why it was taking such a long time for ocuk website and forums to load up lately, wow 10k to catch this person

 

[CliffyBiro]

Thanks.

One more thing.

Do you want this broadcast around the net? A few friends are willing to post it on blogs. Hell, it might be worth creating a Facebook account dediated to finding the tit.

Should think not. This sort of thing can be offputting to new customers.

 

[wesley]

whoa that's serious,

perhaps it's a bad move to offer £10k as it could open the floodgate for hackers/attackers to hold your server for random, but far far more than £10k

that's why UK government wont negotiate with any terrorists

 

[MiNxYyY]

Ahh so thats why the main webpage wont load,have reset my reutor four times thinking my internet was down

Seriously,hope this gets sorted ASAP. <3

 

[Spie]

Thanks.

One more thing.

Do you want this broadcast around the net? A few friends are willing to post it on blogs.

Why not. It can only help.

 

[Napaim]

Pretty hard to investigate without more information, and if it is a competitor they probably paid someone with a botnet.
These things are normally controlled by IRC, if it were my site I would scan the zombie computers for vulnerabilities, see if I couldn't get the virus and run it in a sandbox / decompile the binary to see where it connects too.

Hope you catch the offenders!

 

[Dogoid]

what about having people log in to view the forums? should cut the attacks down a bit even for just the forums

 

[CliffyBiro]

Why was my post removed O_o...

Competitor hint. And a big one as for once, I knew who the hint was!

 

[DJMK4]

Wouldnt you need to look into the system though (logs etc)?

 

[Wicksta]

Ahh so thats why the main webpage wont load,have reset my reutor four times thinking my internet was down

I did similar the other night while I was trying out a new router, I thought it was having problems.

 

[Rroff]

Say again?

Someone hinted at a competitor (post removed) on whos forum is a thread with people asking if ocuk was down. Theres also threads on o2, adslguide/thinkbroadband and a few other forums where people are asking why they can't get to the site.