That’s a 100,000 dollar pettiness in the universe Minecraft
, while the participants of a virtual competition eliminated a team from Andorra by cutting off their internet. The tour de force, which consisted of a classic DDoS (denial of service) attack, cost the eight players a hypothetical victory, and immobilized the entire internet network of the Principality of Andorra, located between France and Spain. .
The theme of the game was centered on Squid Game
, the famous event series from Netflix .
Modus operandi: immobilize an entire country
Difficult to remember the gigantic doll of the series Squid Game without experiencing chills. The craze for the South Korean show does not seem to dry up, since many video game servers imitate the original concept of the series: a colossal reward, a single survivor, and hundreds of suitors who play games of mortal playground.
On Twitch, a server named SquidCraft hosted a tournament from the game Minecraft, bringing together more than 150 people, including some players residing in Andorra. At the same time, the country experienced an internet shutdown, probably operated by ingenious hackers who did not go out of their way. Andorra Telecom, the only access provider in the country, suffered several denial of service attacks (Ddoss) from January 23 to 24, paralyzing the entire country.
The country’s internet connection was quickly restored, but this very inopportune cut cost the victory to the eight Andorran players concerned. The thousands of people who watched the tournament on Twitch commented on the event, oscillating between kind mockery and admiration for those capable of shutting down the internet for such petty purposes.
$100,000 slipping off your fingers like an octopus
However, this cut is not just a schoolboy joke, because there is a lot of money at stake. Registration for the tournament was free, but the reward, given to the only surviving player, amounts to $100,000. The attacks are still continuing on Monday, January 24, and the scale of the means deployed suggests that several thousand people worked together to prevent the residents of Andorra from benefiting from the precious bandwidth.
Of course, this is not the first attack of its kind on servers. Minecraft and the game is regularly the target of attacks that allow hackers to steal user data. On the internet, tutorials abound to be able to prevent and counter these attacks as quickly as possible.
Source: Twitter
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