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Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-for-Hire Listings

Crooks give Fiverr a piece of their mind

May 27, 2016 11:57 GMT  ·  By
Fiverr goes down for six hours under DDoS attack
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   Fiverr goes down for six hours under DDoS attack

Two days ago, we wrote about Fiverr's decision to remove user listings from its website that were advertising DDoS-for-hire services. Today, the decision backfired, and several users told Softpedia that the service suffered a massive six-hour DDoS attack.

The incident took place on the morning of May 27 (European timezones), and the service admitted its problems on its Twitter account. At the time of writing, Fiverr has been back up and functioning normally for more than two hours.

Fiverr's problems stem from an Incapsula probe that found DDoS-for-hire ads on its marketplace, available for $5.

Incapsula reported the suspicious listings to Fiverr, who investigated the issue and removed the ads. Fiverr first removed all listings advertising blatantly illegal DDoS services, but later also removed the ads offering to "test" a website for DDoS "protection" measures.

As Mikko Hypponen, CRO at Finnish security firm F-Secure, noted on Twitter, it sure "looks like the DDoS services they kicked out from Fiverr are now retaliating."

Below are a series of tweets from the people who noticed the downtime, Fiverr's tweets, and an image of the DDoS-for-hire listings that Fiverr removed this week.  

Fiverr listings advertising DDoS services
Fiverr listings advertising DDoS services

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