I know this isn’t the kind of news Linux fans were hoping to read on Christmas Day, but unfortunately, on a day meant for faith, kindness, and hope, others are choosing to act in exactly the opposite way.
Many of you probably remember the problems Arch faced just a few months ago due to massive DDoS attacks, which mainly affected the AUR. Sadly, just when it seemed those issues were behind, a new large-scale DDoS attack on Christmas Day once again made the distribution’s website effectively inaccessible.
I know the Arch community is kind of rough, but any reason we know of that they’re being targeted? Feels like a weird target for any major actors to prioritize for destabilization.
Anybody more tech-savvy than my grandma can order botnet attacks nowadays. And due to it’s memed community it’s an obvious target.
On a more tinfoil hat note: Arch is the base of SteamOS…
SteamOS builds off arch pretty rarely so unless they plan on ddosing for 6 months this doesnt impact steamOS at all.
Its probably someone who got banned from the community trying to make a statement.
I know (or more honestly guessed so). It was meant to be a joke, hence the tinfoil hat reference ;)
DDoS is cheap to buy on the dark web it could be anybody with a grudge and a few thousand USD. It often costs more to mitigate the attacks than to launch them.
I seem to recall hearing speculation that the person behind this had their AUR packages deleted because they were posting malware. I’ve only heard this second-hand so it could be complete bullshit, but it seems plausible given some of the fucking adult babies we have out in the world.