Mailbox.org under DDoS attack

[balaji]

Received an email from them warning that they are expecting DDoS attacks against them.
Quote:
Dear customers of mailbox.org,

since a few days there have been denial-of-service attacks against email
providers worldwide. In other words, attacks that are intended to
paralyze the servers of the providers concerned. - Last Thursday evening
and briefly on Friday afternoon, such a DDoS attack was attempted against
mailbox.org. At the same time, we received an email from the
extortionists asking us to pay a ransom in Bitcoin. Which we will not do.

mailbox.org has systematically prepared for possible DDoS attacks in
order to be able to parry them. However, whether you have thought of
everything is only shown in an emergency. Unfortunately, there were brief
disruptions to our service on Thursday and Friday. We were able to adapt
our systems and improve them permanently, so our systems ran reliably as
always, despite the ongoing attack.

As we are expecting *more and larger attacks* in the coming days, we
would like to inform you in our blog article about the background and
possible effects and ask for your understanding should there be any
disruptions to our service in the coming days.

*Please note*

* If we cannot be reached as usual or if you cannot access your e-mails,
please try again at a later point in time.

* E-mails sent to you will not be lost at any time, but may only be
delivered later.

* In this case, please do not make any enquiries about non-availability
to our support. We will do everything we can to be up and running again
as quickly as possible.

* In the event of disruptions, we will inform you via our Twitter channel
at https://twitter.com/mailbox_org. Please also check there if something
is not running smoothly.


You can find out more in our blog:
https://mailbox.org/en/post/extortio...on-mailbox-org


Best regards,
Your mailbox.org team


--
mailbox.org
c/o Heinlein Hosting GmbH
Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin

https://mailbox.org

Register Court: Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg
Register Court Number: HRB 220010 B
CEO: Peer Heinlein
Unquote.

[Berenburger]

The same attackers as those of Fastmail, Runbox, Posteo, ******, Mailfence, Kolab Now, Guerilla mail, …

Quoted mailbox.org:

The DDoS extortion attempts against us email providers will continue. We at mailbox.org expect further attacks in the next few days. - Our colleagues at other providers are also currently fighting an ongoing DDoS wave as we write these lines. Behind the scenes, we have networked with other affected providers worldwide and are exchanging information on attacks and defence measures in a collegial and friendly manner.

It remains to be seen whether the extortionists will succeed in overloading our infrastructure during the next attack on us or whether we will be in the driver's seat and the DDoS attacks will remain without noticeable effects.

We consider ourselves as well positioned as possible and, to our knowledge, have done and prepared everything that can be done. But every network and every data line has its limits, if only the attack is strong enough. Fortunately, it also costs the extortionists money to operate and provide these immense attack resources. So they also have their limits in the strength and duration of the attacks and will have to stop after some time.

[jarland]

When hackforum removed the booter category, DDOS attacks seemed to almost disappear overnight. Wherever they're advertising now I don't know, but it must be somewhere obvious to the black hat types because I get them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[Bamb0]

Stupid DDOS attacks......

Why do people have to put up with this???