Read between the F"n lines
Those who know me already know for a fact I'm a paranoid motherfucker. I always watch over my shoulder an sleep with one eye open. So I've been really trippin hard on all the concerted DDOS attacks on every one of the top sources on here. I'm a member on two other sites and they aren't having a single issue like this. This is from what I gather is purely an Eroids incident.
So my wheels been turning and I just wanted to throw this out there.
Who stands to gain from attacking the tops sources and taking them offline and essentially excluding them from the rankings? IMO it's definitely a Source from right here on Eroids. So I started thinking really hard about who has enough money to pull this off. Who is so big that they can throw away thousands of dollars like it's nothing? For anyone who knows how expensive it is to execute a concerted DDOS on multiple sites simultaneously for days at a time? Seriously folks we are talking about a lot of fucking money here!
I won't say who I think it is.....
Anyone care to chime in?
please do not mention any source names we don't want to cast blame on anyone in particular. This is merely a speculative post
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This thread won't get us anywhere. All due respect, im locking it.
I personally think its that damn Barry Obama! He saw that he couldn't take our guns... Now he's going for our Juice. Bastard.
Anondelete
Using words like "Definitely" suggest you have solid proof. Speculation is not proof.
The person doing this is demanding $2000 from the victim. The source you think is doing that probably makes that in 4 hours or less, with or without eroids.
UPDATE: sources on eroids aren't the primary target either. Bitcoinstore owners received the same email.
http://bitcoinstore.tumblr.com/post/48814787369/bitcoinstore-com-extorti...
AnonI also prefaced it with IMO, in my opinion, which reflects a lack of proof.
I just don't honestly believe its some random kid/person with no reason behind them except that they are bored Nd hope they get lucky that a source pays up. It's just my opinion that's all it is.
Hahahahahaha, I love the last coupe sentences.
I'm tellin you Smexy... ITS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!!!!! Ordered a pizza the other night, and when the doorbell rang, this mfer looked awful familiar, and was checking out my DOS if you know what I mean.... hmmmmm and I'll be damned, as he was walking to his car.... I WAS CHECKING HIS DOS????? WHAT????
↑.......WHAAAAYYYTTT...uh uhhhh no u dih eent!! Pizza is NOT on the diet and Justin Timberlake is NOT the momma!! Dayuuummmmm i thought we finally were makin head way wit u! Well if u must know...Tread and I saw a coupon for 40% off Nutella and guess what....yup i chunked it. Wasnt even gonna tell ya! But now u are eatin PIZZA!? WTF!!??
Just thinking out loud here----but it seems like in cases where there is a mass-DDOSS attack like this, the ENTIRE review section should be closed for a few days (the average period of a DDOSS)----with no rankings visible to anyone. Eroids has enough to offer that hiding the review section for a short time wouldn't do any major damage, since we are all very good at entertaining ourselves in the forums. This would ensure that the person or persons resposible for the attack would have gained no advatage, and would discourage future attacks as well. And lets be clear here-----this is being done to give somebody an advantage in some way. Besides, if the entire top 8 or ten are removed, then any veiwer who would happen along wouldn't really get an accurate picture of the highest rated sources.
Let me stress that this is nothing more than just a thought off the top of my head, and trust me, even my best thoughts aren't too bright, so hopefully BFG doesn't come in here and thump me for being stupid.
This is no bullshit and I have a valid example. Last night I passed along eroids to one of my friends for him to check out. He's always bought from a gym dealer/friend/whatever but wanted to check out online sources. He goes on eroids on his phone and pulls up the number one source. (The one that is right now) Go figure.
Well I don't know whether it is or not but I will say it would be a genius business move if so. It is corporate espionage the underground version. No court, cops, or any other regulation if I was running an illegal business and had the ways and means why not neutralize the competition. For the sources it is about money not a humanitarian effort. I am not saying that some aren't good people or generous to others but they are all in this to make money. At least I would hope so otherwise they would be complete morons to take such risk for any other reason. I am of course pissed because this effects my flow of gear but if it was an attack by another source it was a Michael Corleone move right out of the Godfather. But we should be careful not to speculate or cast dispersions without evidence because then we are doing the same damage to someone's reputation that may not deserve it.
AnonTotally agree no names whatsoever. The moment a source name gets dropped ill have a mod delete the entire thread.
AnonHaha sort of like the messages in the beginning of mission impossible !!
This thread will self destruct in 10.....9.....8..........;)
AnonI couldn't comment one way or another if it was someone from eroids. I do think that eroids SRCs make a good target because eroids is a big deal. Think about this site for a minute, there is not another site like this anywhere that I know of. Everyone wants to be on this site. I think an opportunity has presented itself because I the magnitude, heck it could be anyone from the Russian mafia to someone in china. Maybe even a jack ass SRC that has been labeled a scam.
StevebYou seem to know a lot about this......hmmmm.
AnonWow you busted me...
No1Its not alot of money actually as its done with a vps which can be had for 50-100$ a month, big sites like ebay and stuff it cost alot yeah because it requires alot more power to take down those servers, these sources have no DDoS protection what so ever on their websites so it literally takes nothing to bring them down
That is a misstatement if I ever heard one ..
AnonSO it's some random dude with a few bucks in his pocket? Too simple bro at least that's my opinion
No1Yep it really is, theres 2 ways
The attacker infects alot of random computers with his virus and once thats done he sets the attack off and all of the infected computers attack the target IP
Or VPS ( virtual private server) gives you bandwidth which is whats used to flood the target host
AnonFor what gain? What purpose? I don't know shit about the technical aspect but I know to accomplish this on as many sources simultaneously takes a level of sophistication and purpose. Purpose being the driving force
No1Well I heard the attacker was demanding money from the sources to stop attacking their websites, or it could be a source trying to pull something, who knows
This is what I think is what is happening.
He could simply be doing this to make money on his own. This happens with (illegal) online pharmacies all the time that have nothing to do with eroids.
StevebYou mean the source that was ranked about 200 and now they're in "CAN'T SAY". Yeah who knows, Eroids has pissed off a lot of people.
How do you figure this is in any way eroids fault? The boss is responding to current events to protect the members interest. As a source falls off with these technical issues ,they get yanked. I think it's sensible. It isn't BFG's problem that these guys are under attack. His concern is this website and keeping it safe as possible.
AnonBro if this dude keeps knocking off all of the good sources on Eroids there won't be much of eroids left. Whether the site works or not. Hopefully this shit ends and we can all go back to life as we knew it. It's just crazy days I guess. I've never seen anything this big happen on eroids.
And no way is this eroids fault. Eroids is for the members not the sources.
AnonDo the math on those promos, that's pocket change to these cats
breakingfaceIt's much more likely a 3rd party extortion. Extorting illegal enterprises is as old as time. I base my opinion on a few assumptions:
. An eroids source close enough to the top to benefit would not risk getting booted
, Most humans specialize in one field or another because of time, energy, and effort limitations- it's highly unlikely to find a steroid dealer with enough time and expertise to organize this
. There have been various extortion attempts on this board for some time, as there have been with other steroid forums
AnonU do realize some of these sources here are huge right? Like multi million dollar businesses? These big Sources own multiple sites bro. Not 2 or 3 try 50+ sites by the same ownership. This isn't some kid
breakingfaceValid point.
I see what you are getting at but you never know man. There are some SMART hackers out there. It could very well be your average pimply faced warcraft computer nerd getting paid $200 by ANYONE to breach the security of a certain website.
I have no idea and am not suggesting anything other than maybe it's not some huge operation you are making it out to be.
It could easily be 2 or 3 (network security geniuses) sitting at their house and making a few hundred bucks to do the attacks. Anyone with the right knowledge can breach the security of a website or server, doesn't always mean it's a super expensive operation.
AnonThis sort of attack costs money. Shit aint free brother. And a lot more than a couple hundred bucks. But I am just speculating out loud.
Absolutely. But it Is just as likely a small time hacker. Typically a ddos is just a trojan used to target one system and is flooded by hundreds or thousands of "attack traffic" which basically makes it impossible to target the source. Multiple fake IP's are used so tracking the origin is nearly impossible.
So an attack can be by one nerd sitting at home who hacks for fun while playing video games all day, OR it could be a huge operation of experienced and possibly educated network security experts.
there is no way to tell
AnonCorrect. The question isn't so much who is physically carrying out the attack it's where the funding came from.
It's clever speculation...but interesting food for thought. Who has the motive and capability? Hmmm....
I see it too!!!
Gatorgear
I see too!
AnonI like what you did here, it's very interesting. Very speculative but very interesting. Is it possible? Absolutely. Hmm curious as to what everyone else thinks.
Edit: Also just looked at who's currently number one on both the stable and trending lists....very damn interesting.
Good point!!
AnonLike they say bro "Follow the money"
Sent you a FR...I have some crazy ideas that prolly shouldn't be public but maybe you can see some merit in them lol
Anonhit me up fr accepted