Bitfinex: the cyber attack is over
The DDoS cyberattack suffered this morning by the server of the Bitfinex exchange has ended.
At this time all systems are active and the services are back 100% operational.
The attack has actually lasted very little, less than half an hour, and when it ended it doesn’t seem to have left any traces.
Know more: what happens during a ddos attack?
Besides, it was a trivial DDoS attack, an attempt to block the server’s reactivity by flooding it with more connections than it could handle.
This type of attack does not generally cause damage, but only a suspension of the server’s operation, making it simply unable to respond to all requests.
As a precaution, the company suspended all services, waiting for the attack to stop before returning everything online, after having raised protection levels against this type of attack.
Now, with protection levels raised, the server should be better able to withstand this type of attack, although it all depends upon the intensity of the attack.
In fact, the servers of Bitfinex were certainly already protected against this type of attack, albeit this morning such protections were not sufficient.
This means either that they were too low, simply because the danger had been underestimated, or that the attack was launched with more power than expected. In the latter case it is not impossible to completely rule out that it may not happen again in the future, but seeing that the more powerful a DDoS attack is, the more it costs, raising the level of protection means making life much more difficult for attackers.
At this time all systems are active and the services are back 100% operational.
The attack has actually lasted very little, less than half an hour, and when it ended it doesn’t seem to have left any traces.
Know more: what happens during a ddos attack?
Besides, it was a trivial DDoS attack, an attempt to block the server’s reactivity by flooding it with more connections than it could handle.
This type of attack does not generally cause damage, but only a suspension of the server’s operation, making it simply unable to respond to all requests.
As a precaution, the company suspended all services, waiting for the attack to stop before returning everything online, after having raised protection levels against this type of attack.
Now, with protection levels raised, the server should be better able to withstand this type of attack, although it all depends upon the intensity of the attack.
In fact, the servers of Bitfinex were certainly already protected against this type of attack, albeit this morning such protections were not sufficient.
This means either that they were too low, simply because the danger had been underestimated, or that the attack was launched with more power than expected. In the latter case it is not impossible to completely rule out that it may not happen again in the future, but seeing that the more powerful a DDoS attack is, the more it costs, raising the level of protection means making life much more difficult for attackers.
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