Since almost a week CABAL EU is under a DDos attack. At first impression it seems to be a frustrated "kid" that wants revenge, but GM and some of us players think there is much more behind it.
Since a few weeks GM received/made some new screening tools that seems to be very effective in weeding out the bots. And just before the attacks started, GM Renovatio admitted having "cleaned up" all the goldfarmers stashes, alz and accounts... So obviously, it is more in that direction, one of organised crime, that one has to look to find the motivation behind such a large scale attack.
to make it clear : a DDos attack is like causing a huge traffic jam at the servers ports/operation and involves thousands + of "enslaved" Pc (virus infected PC's) that work in a bot-net. The result is that players can no longer enter the game, due to the traffic congestion, and it often ends with the server going on its knees and rebooting...
Considering the involved scale of the attack,which is massive, it is clear that there is organised crime behind it and that GM is not dealing with some lonely cyber punk
It is a very serious offence and if they catch the guy(s) he's/they're in for a rough ride, legally...
As there was an attempt for blackmailing, that specific message was tracable to Sicily, Palermo...
Remains to be seen if that is indeed the place where he lives... Considering his obnoxious and taunting posts on the forum, it seems indeed to be an Italian, with a very poor understanding of english...
As far as we know from GM, no one has been caught yet.. but the wheels of justice are slow turning...
at this very moment , GM has brought down the servers (both game and forum) and is upgrading some hardware... prob in an attempt to stop the DDos attacks..
so here you have it...
added :
EU forum just got back online...so if you cant to follow it.. go ahead
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