Australian ISP Under Attack

[GhostShip]

Yesterday Primus announced a serious large scale assualt on their network.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/primus_ddos/

Australian telco Primus said it came under an intense denial of service attack on Wednesday.

The botnet-powered assault, aimed at its core routers, limited connectivity for Primus customers to sites outside Australia, according to a status message on its support page. The source or motive for the attack remains unclear.

"As of about half past 5 this afternoon (Wednesday May 21'st 2008) Primus has been under a Massive DoS Attack.
The attack is coming (as usual) from thousands of compromised systems all over the world, and while we have blocked their connections to the host they were attacking at our Core Routers, they are unfortunately still able to thrash out our International links, causing all International traffic to crawl to a snails-pace.
Please be patient while the attack is on-going and avoid using any bandwidth sites that are hosted outside of Australia."

I hope none of our room-hosts where affected by this all too common occurance, with the increase in global communications networks it seems there are always a few half-wits who see some advantage in utilising their online muscle usually without the knowledge of those involved in the actual attacks, lets hope the perpetrators are treated to a nice cold and dark cell when caught.

[tig]

hmmm

Surprising nothing was said at all on the late news... I hope this didnt effect to many people. Good to see thou that primus' news section did put something up to tell customers.