DDoS Attack on What.cd, BTN and other BitTorrent Trackers

[Guest Immortallegend]

Several popular private BitTorrent trackers have suffered downtime today
due to DDoS attacks. The attacks appear to originate from an individual
who had aspirations of joining the music tracker What.cd, but carried
over to other sites including BroadcastTheNet, PassThePopcorn and
HDBits. Three of the six targeted sites are still offline and the
disgruntled user is showing no signs of stopping the attacks.



BitTorrent trackers are no strangers to DDoS attacks. Pretty much all
sites of a respectable size are targeted on occasion by unknown sources.
Today is one such day, but this time the source appears to be rather
public.



A person using the nickname Zeiko is claiming responsibility for the
DDoS action, which was initially intended to force What.cd staff into
giving out an invite.



Zeiko joined IRC (Internet Relay Chat) to convince site staff that he
already had an account, but when the admins couldn’t find any record of
it in the database Zeiko turned his anger on the site.



“What.cd is now being under DDoS attack until I get my invite,” he wrote in What.cd’s IRC channel.





Zeiko threatening in IRC





While these kinds of threats are not uncommon, this one proved to be serious when What.cd became unreachable.



Later the same user started a Twitter account using the handle “Zeiko
Anonymous” announcing the “Piracy DDoSes” with What.cd as the first
target.





But it didn’t stop there. After a few hours Zeiko was looking to inflict
more damage, asking whether PassThePopcorn.me (PTP) or Broadcasthe.net
(BTN) should be next.



The disgruntled user settled for the latter and announced BTN as Piracy
DDoS Project #2. The TV-tracker has been in maintenance mode ever since.





During the day four more attacks were launched against IPTorrents, HDBits, The Vault and SceneAccess.



At the time of writing What.cd, BroadcastTheNet and SceneAccess remain
inaccessible. The other sites can be reached but were offline earlier
today.



From the looks of it Zeiko (who now hates torrents) is indeed
responsible for the downtime at these popular private BitTorrent
trackers, but thus far we haven’t been able to get this confirmed by any
of the site staff.



One thing’s for certain though, torrent invites are serious business.



Update: The BTN site and tracker are back.

[Guest wolfie]

Don't know whether he'll hear me but, can you please add PTP to the list bro ? :D

[Guest PARADOX]

I think PTP got attack 2.

[Guest Immortallegend]

Don't know whether he'll hear me but, can you please add PTP to the list bro ? :D

Yeah PTP is in the topic, its included in the other bitorrent trackers in the title and it is included in the content :D

I think PTP got attack 2.

Yes it was,its there in the content, read through :)

[Guest lawl]

:lol:

[Guest PARADOX]

:lol:

Cut it! lol cool sign..that movie is going to be nasty in a good way :lol: