What ever became of those group DDOS sites for Russian web services that were linked everywhere at the beginning of the war? Did they ever actually work?
They did. For about 3-5 days there were some major service outages. Some of which were ugly and not very smart in hindsight. In case of my ex-employers, this DDoS was serious enough to break availability of multiple transportation-related sites with a single backend. Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian among others. Thanks guys, you've definitely helped to stop Putin!
Now lots of Russian services are either unavailable from the outside, or use DDoS-Guard and other protection providers.
The situation had left some ironic service market niche: when you're inside Russia, you need VPN to circumvent the state censorship, when you're outside, there's demand for in-Russia endpoints now. Banking, state bureaucracy websites, utility bill payment sites and integrations, local media streaming services.
What ever became of those group DDOS sites for Russian web services that were linked everywhere at the beginning of the war? Did they ever actually work?
They did. For about 3-5 days there were some major service outages. Some of which were ugly and not very smart in hindsight. In case of my ex-employers, this DDoS was serious enough to break availability of multiple transportation-related sites with a single backend. Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian among others. Thanks guys, you've definitely helped to stop Putin!
Now lots of Russian services are either unavailable from the outside, or use DDoS-Guard and other protection providers. The situation had left some ironic service market niche: when you're inside Russia, you need VPN to circumvent the state censorship, when you're outside, there's demand for in-Russia endpoints now. Banking, state bureaucracy websites, utility bill payment sites and integrations, local media streaming services.
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