something awful frag

A super spammer attacked in the early morning wiping boards and filling threads (100s of posts per second was really quite something to see)

I knew it felt empty somehow on the kc the last couple of weeks

Why the fuck does it take 6+ hours to restore from a backup? Did Helmut fuck it up and accidentally delete all data or something?

>>547 it would be really cool if we could get a technical write up by Helmut. I am interested in how this went down. I want every detail

>>549 maybe the person who did this found an exploit in the software or something >100s of posts per second was really quite something to see could be more complex than using thousands of different proxy ips (that KC wouldn't be able to detect) but what do I know

This interface is so much nicer than KC Why can't KC have nice things?

>>552 The spam was already over for many hours. The site was taken down to restore from a backup, you can still see the stickied announcement. Also I'm pretty sure it was nowhere near 100s of posts per second, but it was still a lot. And yeah, it looks like just a botnet. Somebody posted a screenshot of some guy saying he would spend $200 to do this.

>>554 >Also I'm pretty sure it was nowhere near 100s of posts per second It was, as I watched threads reach the allowed max of over 4200 posts in seconds.

>>556 Which threads?

>>557 One thread on /int/ and another on /s/ when Bernd created a thread there due to captcha being enabled on /int/

>>551 would that be smart? to publish how exactly you restored stuff and improved defenses? though maybe im too stupid to understand opensource

Post screenshots of the poster map when the shit went down. This is fascinating from a technical standpoint, but fuck that guy I want to lurk. How did he get past the /m/ block? How did he defeat the captcha?

>>560 He did not get past /m/ being locked. His threads were moved there from other boards.

>>561 should've just locked all boards then and left a sticky. bernds would've understood

https://reversi.dietchan.org/ come play

>>558 I see only 2 threads that reached >1000 posts. One on /int/ with 2000: https://kohlchan.net/int/res/23796856.html And one on /s/ (moved to /m/) with 3000: https://kohlchan.net/m/res/413154.html Neither had even close to 100 posts per second.

It's back.

>>565 >Neither had even close to 100 posts per second. Whatever. I guess you weren't there as it happened.

>>568 No, I looked at the threads just now, before the backup got restored and they were wiped. I counted around 30 posts per second tops.

>>570 >No I see.

The spammer is fucking back, my God