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Is anyone else having a problem with a Dallas zoo light ad auto playing? There is no video or ad on the page, but it'll just start playing and my iPhone will show the little vocal box at top showing sound is playing.

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3 hours ago, Covri said:

Is anyone else having a problem with a Dallas zoo light ad auto playing? There is no video or ad on the page, but it'll just start playing and my iPhone will show the little vocal box at top showing sound is playing.

That's crazy. Lol

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13 minutes ago, immamac said:

That's crazy. Lol

The weird thing is the first handful of times it happened it shut off pretty quickly on its own, but today it happened twice and played the full ad. It’s happened probably 8-10 times over the last couple weeks. I assume it’s the same ad each time. Only here and only on my phone, not my iPad.

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1 minute ago, Covri said:

The weird thing is the first handful of times it happened it shut off pretty quickly on its own, but today it happened twice and played the full ad. It’s happened probably 8-10 times over the last couple weeks. I assume it’s the same ad each time. Only here and only on my phone, not my iPad.

In cloak doom or what? You shouldn't even have ads render or load on this pages that aren't cloak. 

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44 minutes ago, immamac said:

In cloak doom or what? You shouldn't even have ads render or load on this pages that aren't cloak. 

The ones today pretty sure were in the daily Texan, but could've been cloak room. I figured the ad was being hidden, but somehow the audio was breaking through. Really odd.

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14 hours ago, Covri said:

The ones today pretty sure were in the daily Texan, but could've been cloak room. I figured the ad was being hidden, but somehow the audio was breaking through. Really odd.

That's pretty weird, yeah. All the ads shouldn't be audio auto play either. Can you add a link to which page it happens on next time?

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

That's pretty weird, yeah. All the ads shouldn't be audio auto play either. Can you add a link to which page it happens on next time?

Happened this morning when I clicked into the basketball forum and shut off pretty quick when I clicked on a post. I'm starting to recognize the opening drums 😂

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Imagine a 3-0 thriller in College Station borking the board.

What a world.

that's not whats borking the board. There's some european IP's basically DDoS the site. 

Posted
1 hour ago, immamac said:

should be fixed. I blocked a lot more of asia, a lot of africa and some south american countries. This is a global attack so it's really lame.

 

That type of shit pisses me off so bad.

I mean what is there to gain by exposing your attack vectors to the world over a site that yields them nothing.

 

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2 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

 

That type of shit pisses me off so bad.

I mean what is there to gain by exposing your attack vectors to the world over a site that yields them nothing.

 

I have no idea if this info is relevant, but your question made me curious and this is what I found.

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The desire to have fun, to hold one’s own, to settle scores, or just plain hooliganism. Usually, these motives are pursued by young talents who try their hand at hacking, want to prove something to themselves or their friends, or harm them in some small way, for example, by making their school’s website inaccessible or a gaming service with which they have not established a relationship. In such cases, DDoS attacks are usually carried out using simple, cheap, but quite effective means. It is relatively easy to defend against such attacks — if your resources are under professional protection.

Defending or enforcing ideas — political, social, environmental, cultural, etc. Those who attack “for an idea” are usually trying to harm those who disagree with them or to achieve a broad public response. These attacks should not be underestimated at all.

Damaging competitors — until recently, this motivation of attackers was perhaps the most common in our practice: in an effort to gain at least some competitive advantage, some unscrupulous market players launched attacks on their competitors in order to damage them and force their customers to switch to other websites. Such attacks are particularly strong and painful during periods when traffic seasonally spikes, such as the pre-Christmas shopping season. DDoS attacks of this type often prove to be very powerful, and therefore their defense requires not only the involvement of professional anti-DDoS services, but also the careful elaboration of a whole set of measures to ensure the stability of Internet resources against DDoS attacks, because if the attack order is well paid, the hacker  will do everything possible to execute it.

We have also encountered extortion and blackmail frequently in recent years. Attackers driven by this motivation not only attack, but also make their demands to the victim — usually they name the amount of compensation in cryptocurrency, after receiving which they promise to end the attack. And although ransomware attackers usually do not carry out super-powerful attacks, they still often show enviable perseverance in achieving their goals: Even if the owners of the attacked resources connect protection, extortionists try to find vulnerabilities in them to launch new DDoS attacks. In addition, they can carry out complex multi-vector attacks in which the DDoS attack is used as a diversionary tactic, for example, to gain access to the victim’s confidential data and then extort it by promising to “embed” the data in the network or destroy it in case of refusal to pay a ransom.

Cyberterrorism is one of the rarest and most difficult situations to detect, and a variety of reasons may lie behind it: large-scale revenge attacks, industrial espionage, cyberwar attacks, etc. As a rule, such attackers do not limit themselves to DDoS attacks and use them to disguise hacking. Their goals can cover a wide spectrum – from publishing false news and stealing confidential data, to falsifying data, taking control of the victim’s systems, changing business logic, injecting malicious code, etc., to completely destroying data and systems — immediately or with a time delay.

I’d be curious to learn what you IT folks think.

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Damaging competitors — until recently, this motivation of attackers was perhaps the most common in our practice: in an effort to gain at least some competitive advantage, some unscrupulous market players launched attacks on their competitors in order to damage them and force their customers to switch to other websites. Such attacks are particularly strong and painful during periods when traffic seasonally spikes, such as the pre-Christmas shopping season.

 

What a bunch of sore losers over at texags

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