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DOSarrest restores Virgin Gaming's international gaming community

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	On June 11, 2012, Virgin Gaming's servers were targeted by a sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This attack was unlike any they had seen before as it was aimed directly at TCP port 80 and involved over a million unique IP addresses. The attack was so large that it overwhelmed Virgin Gaming's ISP's network, knocking virgingaming.com offline almost immediately. Seven hours into the attack, the traffic reached a volume of 3 Gbps on the ISP's network, and the ISP took the drastic and costly measure of completely blocking the HTTP and HTTPS ports (ports 80 and 443), shutting out end users completely. Read More
About Customer	Virgin Gaming is a platform where console game enthusiasts can set up tournaments and leagues, challenge each other in ladders, and play for cash, points and prizes. Introduced through a partnership with WorldGaming.com, Virgin Gaming provides the secure backend required to facilitate payment and automatically validate results while nourishing a community of gamers of all skill levels from around the world. The platform is used by a large number of users globally, making it a target for cyber attacks. Read More
Solution	Ten hours into the attack, Virgin Gaming decided to find a DDoS protection or proxying service. After a couple of hours of research, speaking to colleagues, and soliciting quotes from several providers, the group decided to work with DOSarrest. DOSarrest promised that within minutes of payment, the proxying service would be engaged. By 11:35am, the Virgin Gaming DNS was updated to point all traffic to DOSarrest's proxying servers, instantly relieving the ISP of the massive traffic of the attack and allowing them to unblock the ports that took the website offline. From that moment onward, Virgin Gaming's traffic doesn't touch the Virgin Gaming servers until it first passes through DOSarrest's scrubbing nodes. DOSarrest analyzes every bit of traffic and discards what is not legitimate, sending only the clean and legitimate traffic through to Virgin Gaming's servers. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

On June 11, 2012, Virgin Gaming's servers were targeted by a sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This attack was unlike any they had seen before as it was aimed directly at TCP port 80 and involved over a million unique IP addresses. The attack was so large that it overwhelmed Virgin Gaming's ISP's network, knocking virgingaming.com offline almost immediately. Seven hours into the attack, the traffic reached a volume of 3 Gbps on the ISP's network, and the ISP took the drastic and costly measure of completely blocking the HTTP and HTTPS ports (ports 80 and 443), shutting out end users completely.

About Customer

Virgin Gaming is a platform where console game enthusiasts can set up tournaments and leagues, challenge each other in ladders, and play for cash, points and prizes. Introduced through a partnership with WorldGaming.com, Virgin Gaming provides the secure backend required to facilitate payment and automatically validate results while nourishing a community of gamers of all skill levels from around the world. The platform is used by a large number of users globally, making it a target for cyber attacks.

Solution

Ten hours into the attack, Virgin Gaming decided to find a DDoS protection or proxying service. After a couple of hours of research, speaking to colleagues, and soliciting quotes from several providers, the group decided to work with DOSarrest. DOSarrest promised that within minutes of payment, the proxying service would be engaged. By 11:35am, the Virgin Gaming DNS was updated to point all traffic to DOSarrest's proxying servers, instantly relieving the ISP of the massive traffic of the attack and allowing them to unblock the ports that took the website offline. From that moment onward, Virgin Gaming's traffic doesn't touch the Virgin Gaming servers until it first passes through DOSarrest's scrubbing nodes. DOSarrest analyzes every bit of traffic and discards what is not legitimate, sending only the clean and legitimate traffic through to Virgin Gaming's servers.

Impact #1	Virgin Gaming's website was back online and functioning normally in just over 20 minutes of issuing payment to DOSarrest.
Impact #2	Attack traffic is rendered completely useless and has not succeeded in destabilizing Virgin Gaming's site since.
Impact #3	Virgin Gaming has access to DOSarrest Security Service, a secure customer panel which displays a variety of charts and graphs of the traffic patterns relating to the Virgin Gaming website.

Impact #1

Virgin Gaming's website was back online and functioning normally in just over 20 minutes of issuing payment to DOSarrest.

Impact #2

Attack traffic is rendered completely useless and has not succeeded in destabilizing Virgin Gaming's site since.

Impact #3

Virgin Gaming has access to DOSarrest Security Service, a secure customer panel which displays a variety of charts and graphs of the traffic patterns relating to the Virgin Gaming website.

Benefit #1	Website downtime reduced from 10 hours to 20 minutes.
Benefit #2	No successful DDoS attacks since implementation of DOSarrest.

Benefit #1

Website downtime reduced from 10 hours to 20 minutes.

Benefit #2

No successful DDoS attacks since implementation of DOSarrest.

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DOSarrest restores Virgin Gaming's international gaming community

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