£10,000 Reward for naming DDoS Culprits

[BloomerzUK]

OcUK are rewarding anyone who can find sufficent evidence against the people who have been DDoS'ing they're website/forum for the last couple of days.

Thought I'd say, because it could be a chance for the computer leterate to have a chance of sniffing it out, and be up for the reward.

Link on Thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17967175

(It's not a hoax, it was posted by the owner)

 

[nathan]

i wonder what sort of back lash the person could possible get for snooping around things they shouldnt be.

 

[BloomerzUK]

He wasn't snooping around, just taking down the website.. thus making OcUK lose custom and potentially thousands of pounds.

 

[charlie-j]

Like when soulja boys myspace got hacked

 

[soapsupah]

that's alot of money, but i dont think they gona get the culprit, since it must be hard, afterall, like i read there, it was server that got hacked not OCuk hacked. also i dont think the dude who dones this got anything, the only one who lose was OCuk probably (maybe he didnt like OCuk).

also i wonder if the dude who done this could get the reward for giving himself

good luck for them with this, but rewarding isnt a great idea i think, everyone will spam it was him! it was them! it was the old man near the bus stop! just to get the money.

Soap.

 

[VonBlade]

At least that explains why I can't get on.

 

[JN]

TBH I think that this may actually tempt someone to come forward. The person who initiated the DDoS is bound to have bragged to friends about taking down OCUK's website.

I cant help but think that OCUK should invest that £10k in improving their customer service though. That way people wont get so p*ssed off with OCUK that they feel the need to retaliate in such a way.

 

[Youngie1337]

Do you think they can find out the IP that he used to attack? I have my sources of tracking down through proxies, most likely a remote attack from another victim. We can find this victim, inspect his computer for connections in and outbound.

 

[Rastalovich]

Unless some1 actually knows some1, I'd start looking @ OcUK logs tbh.

 

[Youngie1337]

Unless some1 actually knows some1, I'd start looking @ OcUK logs tbh.

Exactly, without any information such as date/time/location/server that was attacked minimum, we can't do anything tbh.

No one is going to drop themselves in it, they're facing a criminal record, their computer taken away and maybe prison sentence.

 

[Freak]

I think that it will be very hard and having to trace through multiple computers to see who started the zombies..

 

[Rastalovich]

And to be fair, u can do it so no1 can find u did it.

Old trick used to be interneted pcs in shops. That was kinda when the internet was a new toy tho.

Used to be able to do it from cafes, but they tend to have designer desktops these days.

 

[JN]

Tracking down the culprit of a DDoS attack is extremely hard. If you look at the OCUK logs all you will see is hundreds (or more?) of innocent people with infected PC's maxing out their broadband connections to take down the OCUK site.

Even if you track down some of those machines and get a chance to inspect them you probably wont find anything as the person who initiated the attack doesn't necessarily have to 'log in' to each infected PC to launch the attack, instead the infected PC's connect to a main network (like IRC) and await commands.

The best way to track down the person behind it is to do exactly what OCUK are doing and offer lots of money for information in the hope that someone who knows about it, but is not involved in it will take the cash.

 

[Rastalovich]

Interesting. I didn't think OcUk would be considered big enough to consider using an infection method.

 

[Hatman]

Wonder if they do suspect someone but need proof?

Or a bluff.

 

[JN]

Interesting. I didn't think OcUk would be considered big enough to consider using an infection method.

From what I've heard in the past there are 'clans' of 'hackers' who build up their zombie network of infected PC's over time and then when someone p*sses them off or they just fancy a laugh, they pick on a website and DDoS the hell out of it.

 

[Rastalovich]

Minors who just read something on the net in my experience.

Could be they dealt some bad customer service to some people tho

 

[moogle]

Do you think they can find out the IP that he used to attack? I have my sources of tracking down through proxies, most likely a remote attack from another victim. We can find this victim, inspect his computer for connections in and outbound.

It's a botnet DDoS'ing them, lots of innocent users PC's that are infected with a trojan of some sort team up to attack it so you won't find 1 ip.

Maybe this will make them change?

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[JN]

Maybe this will make them change?

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ROFL..so true.

Maybe the botnet full of disgruntled customers

 

[charlie-j]

I doubt there is a way of finding out who did it.