For clarity, I'm not talking about SF. But I am running into various sites that just don't resolve out. Spinning. It could be their spy shit not working and hanging things up due to my security measures. But I wouldn't think so because other times they've worked.

I'm wondering if it's DoS attacks. Every year a more intense cyber landscape. 2024 seems primed to be the grand daddy of them all. So maybe I'm just hyper aware.

UPS tracking and eBay both in the last few days for me. There have been several others.

Yes. Bbq brethren forum has been slow as hell lately. Ran into it on a few other sites also.

I just tried eBay, it responds instantly for me.

It's working now for me too.

Yes. A bunch of sites have been slow and some even completely unresponsive. Reddit was completely down for a short while. Sam’s club app took a long time to load and then rejected my password this morning. Looks like everything is back to normal now.

Last weekend, on 3 separate bank websites that I tried to access for our accounts messaged responses were “We are experiencing a higher volume of traffic than normal. Please try again later”.

Well, OK then.

If it is not the website itself or their attached ISP, it could be your DNS server either not responding or your have a cached DNS entry on your machine that is incorrect.
Hit F5 to refresh can assist the later and if it is a server issue then it will affect all sites.
And clear your cache ~ (MS): ipconfig \flushdns
And clear/reset in your browser setting.
Then change to a different DNS Server.
Start there...

SF was briefly unresponsive a couple days/nights ago. (It resolved and pinged, but HTTPS was MIA.) Lasted a couple minutes or so and then it was back.

That's about it. I usually have, and regularly use/check, <counting...> about eight or nine sites of varied types for which I always have tabs open.

You can always check IsItDownRightNow? (Though it sometimes reports as "down" sites that are actually up. E.g.: Right now it's claiming Twitter [X] is down. It's not.)

Yes. Absolutely. Certain sites, such as NY Post and Daily Mail have locked my chrome browser such that I need to close it with Task Manager and reopen.

Apologies in advance for the geek read...
The first and last sentence may be all you want to know.

Great deal of "malicious traffic" coming from Russia (and smaller amount from N. Korea, China, Muslim countries) and via ISP that are used by Russian sources in other countries (VPN).

I have a BB that is getting hammered with "subscribers sign up", and have denied a large number of netblocks. There are over 87 thousand netblocks, (over 45 million IP's) assigned to Russia. And another I assist with experiencing the same traffic and some of the same users signing up.

These are not a specific Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) range with leading addresses being sequential and simpler to block large numbers of addresses with single rule or line of code for a website. (That does not include other "Russian allies or country's where they live, VPN, or systems that are compromised and used to register/exploit)

The hosting company does not have "higher filtering by country/bulk listing. (I am in the process of moving to another host)

That resulted in me denying automated activation via email and log in by users, and manually approving all.
IP verification, email address investigation, some "challenge questions" and such to weed out malicious intent.

It is more work, but easy when a flood of them come through, because they often use the same tactics.

The flip side is when they start realizing they are being specifically blocked, distributed denial of service (DDoS/ Request Flooding) where automated scripts are run from a great deal of locations/networks around the world accessing the website, overwhelm the server/infrastructure and "legitimate requests" cannot get through the "traffic jam", and page "Timeout" occurs, or very slow and intermittent experience with the site.

Para knows this game very well.


As long as the US and NATO keeps pissing in Putin's Wheaties, we are going to see this crap and more.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Last weekend, on 3 separate bank websites that I tried to access for our accounts messaged responses were “We are experiencing a higher volume of traffic than normal. Please try again later”.

Well, OK then.

This. I believe there's a concerted cyberattack or ransomware attack going on. For over a week, my wife has tried to pick up prescription from Walgreens, each time they say their system is down but she can pay full price and get reimbursed later. I think she told me she also came across this as a news item.