DDOS Attacks, Server Load Issues and Donations.

[Fauna775]

You have not realized that almost 100% of a population hates people who have sex with animals? This is an animal porn site. It takes less than that to become a candidates for DDoS attacks. I would guess that ZV ranks higher on that list than the homepages of different nation's tax authorities. Hacking attempts and DDoS attacks must be expected at a site like this.

The question was less "I don't understand why they're doing it" and more "dont they have anything better to do", which the answer to that seems to be a rather palpable "no".

 

[ikanon]

The question was less "I don't understand why they're doing it" and more "dont they have anything better to do", which the answer to that seems to be a rather palpable "no".

Making war against such sites will earn them popularity among many. Like "I made that self distributing code that made that animal porn site lame for weeks" ---- "yeahyeeeah you are our hereo!"

Having nothing to do can lead to such activities. Other make such things simply because they can, or want to prove that they are a genuis.

 

[horseplougher]

Making war against such sites will earn them popularity among many. Like "I made that self distributing code that made that animal porn site lame for weeks" ---- "yeahyeeeah you are our hereo!"

Having nothing to do can lead to such activities. Other make such things simply because they can, or want to prove that they are a genuis.

It's so strange to me that there are so many seemingly unemployed geniuses lying around, while the global tech industry is woefully underemployed. Wish i had their free time lmao. If only these geniuses contributed something actually useful to their society instead of attaching more biggoted buzzwords to their social media bios and repressing speech in places like these.

Then again, it's exactly this sort of hubris or vendetta that ultimately destroys people from the inside out. People who behave like this have no empathy and no morals, preferring to engage in illegal/legal gray area activities themselves like cyberwarfare than just minding their own business and living an honest life. They would like you to think their morals are superior, but I see no evidence for that in their actions.

 

[Bloit]

"I made that self distributing code that made that animal porn site lame for weeks"

It's so strange to me that there are so many seemingly unemployed geniuses lying around

I can guarantee you that whoever wrote that DDOS software probably never even heard of zooville.
This is just some dude, or a group of people, paying for a DDOS "service".

That doesn't take any skill. Let's not pretend they're clever.

 

[ikanon]

It's so strange to me that there are so many seemingly unemployed geniuses lying around, while the global tech industry is woefully underemployed. Wish i had their free time lmao. If only these geniuses contributed something actually useful to their society instead of attaching more biggoted buzzwords to their social media bios and repressing speech in places like these.

Having been an educator in a tech academy, I know these "geniuses". They can't work structured, like developing something to satisfy their workplace's needs,like if someone wants a database for management of something. What the heck does that database mean to "me"?- they loose focus on the task, and drift away with other tasks. They can not cooperate with others. They are lonely wolves, who can only work towards something that meets their own needs. At some time there comes this meeting at the principal's office for a pep talk. We are then told that we are the ones that are imbecile. They do not understand that we are the last station before a paid job, and that the employer who pays them has some needs, like creating boring databases, and automation apps. A tech academy has a reputation to maintain, and it serves them best not to let such students leave with a diploma. They drop out, cant really focus on a paid job. They can possibly use heir skills in crime, as the goal they need to work towards will benefit themselves directly, not via a paycheck, further comes the excitement to make something without getting caught, doing a "job", getting the money and not getting caught confirms them as geniuses to themselves, and a few like them, which is probably all they need.

 

[Knottypat]

I can guarantee you that whoever wrote that DDOS software probably never even heard of zooville.
This is just some dude, or a group of people, paying for a DDOS "service".

That doesn't take any skill. Let's not pretend they're clever.

It could be someone who is pissed they got banned from here.

But who knows

 

[MashaSobaka]

Do you all know anything about the 1.6 MB txt file that was uploaded in May and is circulating on the internet? Since it also contains many other website addresses, I suspect that it is a database of some browser account manager or 3rd party password manager that someone hacked, then some antizoo group bought it for money, copied all the accounts with the address "zooville.net" (at least 200 accounts) from it and uploaded it to the internet on various doxxing, tinyboard, etc. sites.
Based on the comments, most of the accounts already have new passwords or are banned, 99.9% of the data is trash and 0-10 comments lurker account. Beastforum is also listed in many accounts, so they probably bought a thousand year old file cheaply. This explains why many passwords didn't work for them.
There was another txt file in it, there were about 50 passwords obtained by thief links and brute force methods, this was also used in the case a few weeks ago, I couldn't find the txt of this one.

They managed to log in with some accounts, they proved with print screens that they were spamming.
The many members who created "die animal abusers" threads in DF and elsewhere while watching horse sex videos (months ago) were because they were stolen accounts. This explains everything why a porn watching account suddenly became an antizoo spam account.

I would take the security of the forum a little more seriously after this. Of course, this is not ZV's fault, because it was not the ZV server that was hacked, but one of the password managers and only weak passwords. However, further stricter measures are needed.

And it would be good if users finally understood not to use "someone80, motherfucker85" and the like as passwords, not to use the same one on 15 other websites and not to save the password with a browser. Especially not if it is an outdated browser or Android phone that is several years old. Do not generate passwords with your browser, because the generation algorithm can also be decrypted. All this data was stolen from there.
There were also few "seen" logs (which thread it was in), so it's likely they also used a keylogger that users activated by clicking on the thief's link.

The attacks were mostly promoted by accounts with Israeli meme avatars, similar to AZA. The style of speech in the comments is very similar to that used on Kiwifarm and etc.

Since there was no destruction on the forum in 5 months, only simple spam, it is clear that the passwords of admins and members with high number of comments could not be obtained.

 

[purpleponyman]

On ddos attack could we just whitelist nordvpn vpns ips. Or any vpn or selection of vpns. We all use one and I get most ddos bots won't.

Could we just remove the porn and let every user host a few pics and have links to other sites which we post too?

 

[Cococoa]

Assuming there is not enough funds, I wonder how it would go down over time.