Recently, it has become fashionable to silence competitors with the help of disabling their websites, servers, and channel blocking using custom-made or self-organized DDoS attacks.
Not so long ago
, mobile-review.com suffered from a powerful attack, in which the amount of traffic towards the server reached 20 GB per second.
Today another well-known resource is in
distress -
seonews.ru . Although, unlike the situation with
mobile-review.com , many people started the attack to coincide with the publication of an article about a very specific LLC.
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The first attack began shortly after the publication of an
article about Progress LLC , containing, for example, such words:
The activity of LLC “Promotion” in the SEO environment is compared with MMM, the Lord and Khoper. Since March of this year, their client recruitment methods have been discussed in various SEO forums and blogs.
According to eyewitnesses, they ring up the customers of their colleagues and “open their eyes” to the “dangers” of continuing to work with the former optimizer. In addition to emotional arguments, lead logically grounded. According to Sergey Pruss, director general of the optimization company Sireniti LLC, the representatives of Progress LLC told his clients: “They buy links, and for this you will be blacklisted.” "They take the reference budget and spend only a small fraction of it on links, and take everything else for themselves," "They use linkators, and for this you will be blacklisted."
Despite the sharp tone and criticism of the above-mentioned company, it is supported by the statements of people well-known in the SEO environment, and also contains quite sane arguments. However, “thanks to” the attack, many people still could not read
this article on the seonews website.
The number of requests to the site since yesterday reaches two million in three minutes.
The editor of the attacked site Demfir Shakurov cannot publish his suspicions about the identity of the customer, but she threw a
cry for help on the search engine optimization forum.