Battlefield 3 DoS Attack

Battlelog has details on a denial of service attack EA is currently battling in Battlefield 3, their military shooter:
Despite our security measures, we have been working around the clock to mitigate the impact of an ongoing denial-of-service attack on our Battlefield 3 game infrastructure over the last several days. While the motives are unclear, the focus of the attack has been interference with network communications preventing access to multiplayer gameplay. At this point, no user data is involved. We share your frustration about the impact this has had to our service and the ability for many of you to play Battlefield 3. We are working tirelessly to mitigate the problem.

As a part of our efforts to resolve these issues, we’ve conducted rolling restarts of Battlefield infrastructure servers to apply some updates. Thank you for your patience and support while we work to get everyone back and playing Battlefield 3 as soon as possible. More updates to come.
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May 10, 2013, 08:44
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May 10, 2013, 08:44
 
Wash Washburne wrote on May 9, 2013, 12:01:
"While the motives are unclear(...)"

I would love to hear their motive, I bet it would go something like this:

EA stop being douochy to the gamers and please veer back to the proper path of righteous developers or we shall turn your servers into a liquid shayt!!

Typically, they will recieve a ransom note via email prior to the attack demanding a payment. This is common for gambling sites (I work in the industry), EA limiting their games to online-only puts them in a similar bracket and opens up a world of business risk. There is no 100% defense against the large attacks that have become possible over the last couple of years (despite what your security vendor may tell you).
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May 10, 2013, 02:38
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack May 10, 2013, 02:38
May 10, 2013, 02:38
 
Introducing Battlefield 4 now with DoS protection. Prepurchase and upgrade now to PMC(Private Military Contractor) Level of protection for added benefits and priority queues. DLC DoS protection season passes will be available after launch and upgrade further.

Coming soon to Origin....

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May 9, 2013, 20:47
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May 9, 2013, 20:47
 
Prez wrote on May 9, 2013, 20:13:
I was reading up on DDoS attacks recently in light of the Spamhaus incident and was pretty shocked at how realitvely easy they are to pull off.

You can rent a botnet for chump change these days.
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack
May 9, 2013, 20:13
Prez
 
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack May 9, 2013, 20:13
May 9, 2013, 20:13
 Prez
 
I was reading up on DDoS attacks recently in light of the Spamhaus incident and was pretty shocked at how realitvely easy they are to pull off.
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack
May 9, 2013, 18:53
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack May 9, 2013, 18:53
May 9, 2013, 18:53
 
not installed, not played and not bothered!
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May 9, 2013, 18:41
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May 9, 2013, 18:41
 
InBlack wrote on May 9, 2013, 09:18:
Since this is DICE and EA, I have some trouble believing that a DoS attack is keeping their servers down for a 'couple' of days. Im thinking that their infrastucture was poorly operated and the whole thing came crashing down and now they are fixing it and invented this DoS bullshit so they dont end up looking bad.
I love bashing EA as much as the next guy, but that's clearly not the case. Their infrastructure was able to handle the launch of BF3 and its expansion packs, when the number of players would be far greater than it currently is.
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May 9, 2013, 15:11
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May 9, 2013, 15:11
 
Maybe laid off EA employee is disgruntled.
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May 9, 2013, 14:46
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May 9, 2013, 14:46
 
"While the motives are unclear"

Really? You can't possibly imagine a possible motive? Why not start by looking at your list of bans, and the reasons you provided for such bans, and check again whether those reasons were valid or not.
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May 9, 2013, 14:35
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May 9, 2013, 14:35
 
Tanto Edge wrote on May 9, 2013, 11:48:
lol
It came full circle. Used to be games on DOS, now it's DoS on games.

Nice
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May 9, 2013, 14:23
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May 9, 2013, 14:23
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TurdFergasun wrote on May 9, 2013, 14:11:
this must be one of EA's added value decisions like centralizing all servers so that it's much easier for DDOS attacks to be effective. Good work EA on stopping all that hacking too, since having control over the hosting has stopped that completely as well. Whats your share price again?

there has always been a "master server"... that's nothing new.
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack
May 9, 2013, 14:11
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May 9, 2013, 14:11
 
this must be one of EA's added value decisions like centralizing all servers so that it's much easier for DDOS attacks to be effective. Good work EA on stopping all that hacking too, since having control over the hosting has stopped that completely as well. Whats your share price again?
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May 9, 2013, 13:51
Slick
 
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack May 9, 2013, 13:51
May 9, 2013, 13:51
 Slick
 
i heard that it's partly due to a recent ban wave that went out a week ago, and that these are mostly disgruntled hackers getting butthurt that their accounts are wiped/frozen.

DoS attacks suck, (i can't play/don't like the game so nobody else should be able to play the game either)... what are these people, 6 years old?
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack
May 9, 2013, 12:01
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May 9, 2013, 12:01
 
"While the motives are unclear(...)"

I would love to hear their motive, I bet it would go something like this:

EA stop being douochy to the gamers and please veer back to the proper path of righteous developers or we shall turn your servers into a liquid shayt!!
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Re: Battlefield 3 DoS Attack
May 9, 2013, 11:48
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May 9, 2013, 11:48
 
lol
It came full circle. Used to be games on DOS, now it's DoS on games.
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May 9, 2013, 10:15
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May 9, 2013, 10:15
 
I work for an international ISP and we've been seeing a rash of DDOS attacks lately. It would not surprise me if the attack originated from China or Russia. Moving forward DICE and EA should invest in DDOS mitigation services so they can offramp the malicious traffic as a firewall won't cut it against DDOS attacks.
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May 9, 2013, 09:18
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May 9, 2013, 09:18
 
Since this is DICE and EA, I have some trouble believing that a DoS attack is keeping their servers down for a 'couple' of days. Im thinking that their infrastucture was poorly operated and the whole thing came crashing down and now they are fixing it and invented this DoS bullshit so they dont end up looking bad.
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May 9, 2013, 09:00
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May 9, 2013, 09:00
 
The DLC for BF3 killed off the player-base in increments. Each new release was another one that somebody didn't buy and so couldn't play on the server when it was running.
Frankly I can't see that many people will be that hot-n-bothered about BF3 going off-line. EA servers were never that reliable anyway.
Anyone who played BF3 frequently experienced "You were disconnected from EA Online (1) ERROR".
EA or outside hacker, what's the difference? The servers are flakey.

After all IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE if we could host our servers and LAN play, now would it?
That's why "Venice Unleashed" server emulator is significant, as it takes EA out of the equation. Them and their servers.
It's not like EA/DICE have released the BFBC2 server software, or have even hinted they may do so. Just a silently implied threat that when they get bored, the game will be unplugged forever.
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May 9, 2013, 08:49
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May 9, 2013, 08:49
 
Imagine this sort of stuff with SimCity or Diablo 3, ugh.
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