{"id":291477,"date":"2021-07-06T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitcoin-org-owner-reports-site-hit-with-absolutely-massive-ddos-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T21:34:36","slug":"bitcoin-org-owner-reports-site-hit-with-absolutely-massive-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoin-org-owner-reports-site-hit-with-absolutely-massive-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bitcoin.org owner reports site hit with &#8216;absolutely massive&#8217; DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bitcoin.org owner reports site hit with &#8216;absolutely massive&#8217; DDoS attack <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDcvM2U4ODE0NDctMjU2Ni00OWJmLWJjZDMtZmRiMjQ1NjYzMjExLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>A website aiming to support the development of Bitcoin has reportedly been hit with a DDoS attack.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f8bra, the pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CobraBitcoin\/status\/1412105666106478595\">reported<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> today that the website had been hit with an \u201cabsolutely massive\u201d distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack along with a ransom demand for an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin (BTC). At time of publication, Bitcoin.org is still accessible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in the day you could put up a reasonable fight against most DDoS attacks,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CobraBitcoin\/status\/1412130116491218949\">said<\/a> C\u00f8bra. \u201cNow they just down you at will. There is no \u2018fight\u2019 anymore, you go down and stay down until they leave you alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OsFgRFRRZb\">https:\/\/t.co\/OsFgRFRRZb<\/a> getting hit with an absolutely massive DDoS attack and a ransom demand to send Bitcoin or they&#8217;ll continue.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been this offended in a while. Ungrateful scum.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 C\u00f8bra (@CobraBitcoin) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CobraBitcoin\/status\/1412105666106478595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>While DDoS attacks have previously targeted major crypto exchanges, it seems somewhat unusual for attackers to go after a site like Bitcoin.org, which holds no information about funds or users, only open-source information on the BTC blockchain and the cryptocurrency. The website was the target of a similar DDoS attack in December, which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zndtoshi\/status\/1340273923712290816\">resulted<\/a>\u00a0in users being unable to access the Bitcoin Core software for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, major DDoS attacks targeted Binance, OKEx and Bitfinex. At the time, CEO Changpeng Zhao claimed that the attack on Binance was undertaken by its competitors in an attempt to harm its reputation rather than steal funds. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>CZ Blames \u2018Self-Perceived Competitors\u2019 for New DDoS Attacks on Binance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time the website has been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> in recent weeks. Bitcoin.org has also been the target of legal threats from Craig Wright, the man who claims he created Bitcoin. Last week, a U.K. court ruled in favor of Wright claiming copyright infringement against Bitcoin.org for hosting the Bitcoin white paper \u2014 C\u00f8bra did not mount a defense to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t show up because defending against nonsense is a waste of time,\u201d the Bitcoin.org owner <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CobraBitcoin\/status\/1394794720216424450\">said<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Following the court ruling, Bitcoin.org blocked access to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> the Bitcoin Core software for any user with a U.K.-based IP address. 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C\u00f8bra, the pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, reported on Twitter today that the website had been hit with an \u201cabsolutely massive\u201d distributed denial of service, or DDoS,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDcvM2U4ODE0NDctMjU2Ni00OWJmLWJjZDMtZmRiMjQ1NjYzMjExLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90959,117,70375,73634],"class_list":["post-291477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-business","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ddos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}