Brings down most of China
A Chinese online games provider decided that the best way
to compete was to attack its rivals with a DDOS attack.
The Chinese bloke called Bing bought a collection of
“private servers" and offered online games and advertising services on
them. Private servers are usually used to run emulated versions
of popular online games like World of Warcraft. Their operators are often
unlicensed by the game designers but make money on subscription fees or
advertising.
But Bing found that there was too much competition in the
market and he was not making enough cash. He also found that his rivals were
using DDOS attacks to shut him down. He decided that the only way forward was to launch a few
DDOS attacks of his own. Bing and a technical assistant decided to retaliate
and spent US$41,000 to rent 81 servers used specifically for attacking private
servers, the statement said.
But the assistant's abilities were not up to the ask and
his attacks were ineffective. They searched online and found a hacker
in
eastern Zhejiang province to design a program that could conduct the
attack. The assistant booted up the program and it directly attacked
DNSPod, a move that would paralyze the DNS servers used by many rival
operators
of private servers, but would also affect a large number of other
Internet
companies served by DNSPod.
Bing targeted a domain registrar that serves many small
gaming companies and started a chain reaction which managed to shut down a lot
of the world wide wibble in China for a while. Bing, 23, has a day job working in a cotton factory, but
not any more he was one of four people coppers arrested for destroying China's
internet in the interest of making a bob or two.