2013-03-05: Raspberry Pi Foundation DDoS

Level One Event

Update

The Raspberry Pi foundation has done an interview with The Inquirer regarding the attack.

TheInquirer.net: Raspberry Pi fights denial of service attacks

Original Report

The @Raspberry_Pi twitter feed indicated that there have been a few denial-of-service attacks against their website in the past few days. They say that the attacks are unusually strong in nature (TCP SYN flooding, it sounds like), and they theorize that it is expensive for the attacker to sustain the attack for long periods.

Today's outage was approximately 30 minutes. I will update with a blog or forum post if one is forthcoming; additionally, if the event turns out to have been expensive for Raspberry Pi, this might get upgraded to a Level Two Attack.

We're being DDOS'd at the moment - very sorry if you can't see the website. If it goes on, we'll try to get some more capacity in tomorrow.
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) March 5, 2013

For those interested, this one's quite hardcore: we're seeing a SYN flood from a botnet that seems to have about a million nodes.
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) March 5, 2013

This is the second attack in a couple of days. We haven't had the blackmail email yet. It's getting plonked when it arrives.
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) March 5, 2013