14 DAY TRIAL // We have another example of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that’s likely launched by a company that wants to disrupt its competition.
A few hours ago, Digital Product Delivery (DPD) – an e-commerce service provider that specializes in selling and delivering products such as ebooks, scripts, themes, music and video – announced being hit by a DDOS attack.
“Our server is currently under a denial of service attack. This means that an attacker is flooding some of our IP addresses with garbage requests and preventing us from serving cart pages for legitimate requests,” the company’s representatives stated.
“The primary IPs affected include the *.dpdcart.com domain and service to the admin panel is not currently affected. However, because the dpdcart.com domain is affected this does affect adding products to the cart and checkout.”
According to a post published a few minutes ago on Twitter, services should be restored for all customers shortly.