Rutracker was unavailable due to DDoS attack

The events of the last few hours forced many to check the Roskomnadzor registries, but inaccessible resources did not appear in them. Yesterday, late in the evening of Saturday, September 5, the RosKomSvoboda website founded by the Pirate Party of Russia collapsed under a powerful DDoS attack with a peak speed of 150 Gbit / s. By morning, the site has been restored. Approximately at the same time intervals, the largest bittorrent sites Rutracker and Rutor, most popular in the former USSR, were under attack. Sites came down, but the distribution continued to function. The coincidence of the time of these attacks and the general theme of resources allows us to draw some conclusions.

Responsibility for the attack on the torrent sites claimed the hacker "grouping" Cod3e. In their message in broken English, they hinted at the cause of the attack in the form of a fight against copyright infringement. Hackers hint that attacks will continue in the future.


Your Twitter account contains contact details . A simple search leads to several pages on the web. In particular, this is the page of Artem “cod3e” Stegantsov born in 1997, as well as several posts on the forums. Someone with the same contact information in March was knowingly bargaining for a Dota 2 account, and in the summer he tried his hand at attacks on game servers and demonstrated confidence in such matters.

It is possible that the online guise of a 17-year-old gamer, who began with attacks on game servers, was created intentionally to divert attention and increase anonymity. Or the "hacker" cling to the attack of a more serious grouping. The work of Rutracker, Rutor and RuBlackList.net was fully restored by the morning of this day. At the time of this writing, Rutracker is still experiencing some problems. There is also 2ch.hk, iichan.hk and dobrochan.org were unavailable.
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DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is a type of attack on network resources associated with the overload of their computing power and connection channels with a large number of requests from multiple computers, which makes protection difficult. In practice, this is often expressed in sending a large number of requests from botnet computers to the server being attacked, which leads to its overload. Both the attack itself and the defense against it are not cheap. In March 2014, a similar incident occurred: a 19-year-old resident of Tolyatti organized DDoS attacks on popular Runet resources, including Habrahabr. In July of the same year, he was detained and later sentenced to 2.5 years of imprisonment.