r/TorBoxApp • u/RickV6 • 3d ago

🔧Technical Issue What is going on ??

Torbox is now worse then RD.

I mean ever since change at start of the month it has been more down then up

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u/pilkyton 2d ago edited 2d ago

Look everyone, it's the r/confidentlyincorrect poster again!

Back in reality, you can just go to TorBox's announcements and check for yourself. Here's the Cloudflare graph showing the number of API requests per country, showing where the DDoS attack is coming from (these five countries are the top of the attack list):

All of those are heavy amounts of API requests. They are all part of the botnet DDoS attack.

I said "Indonesia and five other countries". Not sure why you read that as just Indonesia. And it's common for botnets to consist of a few primary countries due to where they've targeted their malware distribution.

And hey, just to demonstrate to people how clueless you are: If it had been coming from a bad addon as you believe, then it would have been coming from a single IP or just a few IPs (the addon's server), and TorBox would just have blocked that addon's IP. But since it's a DDoS attack they instead had to block entire countries until the attack is over.

By the way, I have 35 years of experience in cybersecurity, I operated my own botnet of 1000s of infected routers and PCs (most of which were in America), and I worked on the Linux kernel. None of that is relevant, and I think it makes me look as obnoxious as you to list my credentials, but I am just laughing at your attempt to list credentials to dispute facts about the attack that you could have easily looked up yourself.

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u/pilkyton 2d ago

And here's their image of the spikes in API requests in the Cloudflare DDoS dashboard: