wicked sims & hosted sites temporarily offline

[sherrie]

Due to an attack on the sites, wicked sims and all its 17 hosted free sites:
Adored Reality, Dour Sim, eXpresSims, WS Finds, Sims2Graveyard, GLAMstuf, LaPink, MySimSite, Nostalgic Sims, OohLaLa Sims, Pernille's Pages, Provocative Pixie, PoisonPinkLemons, Sims2Crave, SherrieSim, SIMply Vogue, and Wicked Sims are now offline for the time being.

Please take a look at this page, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://wickedsims.com/downtime.html

[Duckie]

I sent a message to Jessica yesterday offering help but haven't heard anything. I clicked on the link you gave, Sherrie, and am shown a Hostican page stating "It seems your account is currently using too much CPU / Memory time."

My offer of help still stands. I just need to know what/where/how.  

[sherrie]

yes, the attacks are still in progress, and its just taken the page she just put up offline.

basically its a DDos attack, they are running a programme attacking the server with many ips. Unfortunatly this has taken the one remaining page off.

all I can say is someone must be making a hell of a lot of money, to go to these lengths to protect their 'business'

[Duckie]

I just checked my email (should have before I said anything here, lol) and there was a note from Jessica there.

I think this is totally craptacular.

[Randomness]

Pardon my ignorance please, but aren't DDoS attacks illegal?

[Duckie]

They are.

[littlemisspirate]

Does the attack appear to be random (like all sites from your hosting company, as an example) or targeted specifically to Wicked Sims?  Because the timing seems a bit too good to be a coincidence.

[Duckie]

That's something that only Jessica could answer.

I did put a notice up on my forum explaining briefly what's happening and linking to the Downtime.html page.

[sherrie]

all sites within the wicked sims network. jessica says it started with wicked sims, then onto mangos and then all her hosted sites. The attack stopped about 1 hour ago, but she expects it will pick up again. it seemed to be a programme which attacked each of the sites in turn.

[Anyerfillag]

Well if it hasn't attacked any other sites hosted (bar the Sims 2 ones) by the company providing the hosting and domains, then it's more than likely an attack from a very sour grape; maybe someone on WickedSims (which is started from) has ticked someone off and they're geting their own back?

[Doursim]

I think that an aforementioned post eluded to the fact that this attack comes directly after notice of Wicked Sims policy change to include pay meshes/objects in their uploads.  The policy had been around for a few weeks before the announcement appeared HERE, but drawing attention on PMBD would defiantly attract greater negative attention.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and accuse a TSR groupie.  From the sounds of it, Jessica was attacked first, then Mango, sherrie... seeing a pattern?  I would suspect that the rest of the sites that were attacked were an attempt to throw people off scent.

Pescado mentioned that someone had tried the same thing to this server (no surprise here), and also to Nouk a month or so back.  It may not be the same person but one never knows.

[SoggyFox]

Karma is like physics.  For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  Or, put more simply, who ever is doing this is going to find it backfiring in a rather spectacular way.

I'll just put in a few words with Nemesis, she's good with this sort of thing.

[Anouk]

It's funny the same thing happened to me a few months ago. Some rumours reached me that someone was trying to take noukiesims2 offline, and I passed it off as bullshit.

Seems it was not so.

[Bigtruckgirl]

This is just the absolutely shittiest thing I have ever heard of. I mean it is one thing to bitch, grip, moan and complain about freesites, but to actively target their site to take it down by means of cyber terrorism is just absolutely ridiculous. I wish people would grow the fuck up. This is so damned high school it is not even funny. It reminds me of Rat threatening to do the same shit to us here. So damned childish then and now. AND what message are they sending out...

"If you can't take someone down legally, then illegally is OK."

Great concept to be teaching our children in this day and age. :roll:

[Zazazu]

The bastards. Well, let us know when/if you are looking for donations. I saw here that you most likely will be, and goodness knows TSR isn't getting my money anymore. I use several associated sites.