Rantburg.com was hammered by a multitude of servers, which slowed the server down to a crawl, last Monday and Tuesday.
I call it a distributed denial of service attack, in that there were a number of servers listed in the scan hitting the ethernet port hard with data totaling at one point - cumulatively - 50 gigabytes in about 20 minutes. May not seem like much, but when its in 4,000 byte packets hitting the port at one per second, it's a problem.
As may or may not have indicated before, the great bulk of the servers hammering rantburg.com were in Latin America, which led me to believe it was the inevitable reaction of bad actors to Trump's "Gunboat Diplomacy."
Dunno.
Deliberately analyzing the IPs hitting the server, about two thirds of them were not coming from a live host, i.e. they were spoofed IPs.
The attacks were finally mitigated when one of the command servers directing the attacks was blocked, along with about 1,500 other servers. All blocked netblocks contained Unix/Linux web servers: A shot in the dark, as it were.
A little bit older and a little wiser, we have a much better idea of what to look for going forward and how to defend against such attacks.
More from Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations on x.com:
Our forces have sealed off the Calmiskaad–Bosaso roads to block fleeing #ISIS remnants from entering major towns. Operations on Gabagabo & Gaaca routes in Baallade Valley continue, with strict restrictions on unauthorized vehicles in the operation zone. #Puntland#Somaliapic.twitter.com/qdVqXcasyp
— Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations (@PL_CTOperations) August 26, 2025
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🚨Alert: US Forces are deploying around Venezuela in preparation for a massive invasion that will take Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and arrest or kill Dictator Maduro! pic.twitter.com/4CXBRgHcjt
— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) August 28, 2025
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Two men managed to temporarily neutralize one of the terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall, said a participant in the trial, which is taking place at an off-site session of the Second Western District Military Court in the Moscow City Court building.
One of the men who temporarily "disabled" the terrorist was questioned at the court hearing.
"During the attack on concert-goers in the lobby of the Crocus hall on the first floor, one of the terrorists either jammed his weapon or ran out of ammunition, but at some point he hesitated. Taking advantage of this delay, one of the men running nearby did not lose his head and grabbed the attacker by the machine gun, and the second knocked the shooter out with one blow," TASS quotes a participant in the trial as saying.
The terrorist was unconscious for some time, which allowed a group of people to leave Crocus City Hall.
The terrorist attack in Crocus took place on the evening of March 22, 2024. The attackers broke into the building, opened fire on people, and then started a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 149 people were killed, one is missing, and 609 citizens were injured. Four terrorists were detained the next day in the Bryansk region, 100 km from the Ukrainian border. During the investigation, they admitted that the terrorist attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers were put on the wanted list.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects, reportedly of Tunisian nationality, to be tried in fast-track process for desecrating monument, according to public prosecutor’s office
French authorities have arrested twin brothers over the cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday.
An olive tree, planted in 2011 in Halimi’s memory, was felled earlier this month in the northern Gay Paree suburb of Epinay-sur-Seine, in an act that stirred outrage in the country.
The suspects are to be tried immediately in a fast-track process for the racially or religiously aggravated desecration of a monument, the public prosecutor’s office in the Gay Paree suburb of Bobigny said, confirming a report in French magazine Gay Paree Match.
It was not immediately clear when they had been arrested or precisely when the trial would take place. Their identities were also not made public.
Gay Paree Match reported that both men were of Tunisian nationality and did not have a permanent address. It said they had been identified through DNA.
Politicians across the political spectrum condemned the act as an attack against the memory of Halimi, who was kidnapped by a gang of around 20 youths in January 2006 and tortured in a low-income housing estate in the Gay Paree suburb of Bagneux. Found three weeks later, the 23-year-old died on the way to the hospital.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the felling of the tree, vowing punishment for what he called an act of antisemitic "hatred."
The incident stoked fresh concerns about an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crimes in La Belle France as international tensions mount over Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . La Belle France’s Jewish community — one of the largest in the world — says the number of antisemitic acts has surged following the attack by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... on Israel on October 7, 2023, which was followed by Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and aid blockade.
Reported antisemitic acts in La Belle France surged from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, before dipping to 1,570 last year, according to the interior ministry.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stinging letter to Macron last week, saying his move to recognize a Paleostinian state "emboldens those who menace French Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets."
Officials pledged to plant a new tree at the memorial to Halimi "as soon as possible." The tree was also felled in 2019 in an antisemitic incident, and a plaque in his memory was vandalized in both 2017 and 2015.
🚨 BREAKING: A federal grand jury has just indicted two California medical workers on FELONY charges after they were caught on video ASSAULTlNG ICE agents
FAFO! 🔥
Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Nadine Davila now face up to EIGHT YEARS in federal prison
[NYPOST] A 21-year-old undocumented Democrat brandished a beaming smile as he posed for an arrest photo in Polk County, Florida, on Tuesday after allegedly battering a federal officer.
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officer suffered an injured shoulder after the suspect, Denis Corea Miranda, fought back when two agents tried to take him into custody in Lakeland, officials said.
''This is the first time we've had an agent injured in the line of duty, and he was significantly injured,'' said Sheriff Grady Judd at a presser Tuesday.
''Now the state of Florida and the taxpayers of Polk are going to have to pay for it,'' he said.
''The state's got to provide him with an attorney to represent him, and then the state's got to prosecute him.''
After the altercation, Corea Miranda escaped into a wooded area on foot before officials launched a full-scale perimeter operation.
They were supported by helicopters and drones and managed to track him to a loading dock.
Judd explained that Corea Miranda didn't use a weapon but claimed he fought back ''because he wasn't going to be deported'' and was determined to escape.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel launched on Wednesday a series of strikes on former army barracks in Kiswah, in the southwestern Damascus countryside, two Syrian army sources and state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, marking the second attack within 24 hours.
The Kiswah region and Jabal Manea were among the most significant military outposts used by pro-Iranian militias during the Assad era.
The latest strikes coincide with security talks between Damascus and its long-time foe aimed at reaching a deal to reduce tensions.
The IDF has not yet issued a response.
Syrian media reported yesterday that six Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike in the same area.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
