Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-For-Hire Listings

Two days after Fiverr, a marketplace for digital services, removed user listings from its website that advertised DDoS-for-hire services, the company's website suffered a six-hour long DDOS attack. Softpedia reports: The incident took place on the morning of May 27 (European timezones), and the service admitted its problems on its Twitter account. At the time of writing, Fiverr has been back up and functioning normally for more than two hours. Fiverr's problems stem from an Incapsula probe that found DDoS-for-hire ads on its marketplace, available for $5. Incapsula reported the suspicious listings to Fiverr, who investigated the issue and removed the ads. Fiverr first removed all listings advertising blatantly illegal DDoS services, but later also removed the ads offering to "test" a website for DDoS "protection" measures.

WTF is Fiverr?

[Anonymous Coward]

Must trying to get noticed... seemed to have worked.

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[ShanghaiBill]

Must trying to get noticed... seemed to have worked.

It is a site where you can pay people to do tasks, or earn money by doing tasks. Originally, you paid $5, but most people charge more than that now. I have hired several people to do things, including some graphic design, some voice-overs for apps, writing copy, etc. My 15 year old daughter has earned money on Fiverr writing fake Amazon reviews.

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[dugancent]

I maxed out my dropbox referrals with Fiverr.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Way to go teaching your daughter some solid moral values there!

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[sjames]

Yes, she should have a bright future as a con artist.

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[radarskiy]

"Amazon are utterly immoral and it is ethical to do whatever possible to reduce their value."

Arsonists exists, therefore we should pre-emptively burn everything down.

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[bloodhawk]

teaching a kid to be a con artist, while probably fits in quite well with the real world, is a pretty sad state of parenting.

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[fph il quozientatore]

By this logic, would she be a whore even if she mowed a lawn or served lunches at McDonalds for money?

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[sjames]

Only if she only pretends to mow the lawn or serve lunches.

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[fph il quozientatore]

I see -- like an actress, for instance?

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[gsslay]

Yeah, this kind of dumb recursive logic doesn't stop where it suits you to stop.

The economy is being raped, and you're worried about some anonymous slashdot commentary about some fifteen year old writing reviews that no one is probably going to ever read, that no one is probably going to ever read.

Where's your perspective?

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[gsslay]

So basically it's the go-to site for cheap-ass employers and their con-artist in training daughters?

Nice. There's a recommendation any website would envy.

Anyone else miss the old days?

[gmack]

Anyone else miss the old days when breaches resulted in a trashed machine so only the owner of the machine had to suffer for their lack of security?

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[Keybounce]

Ha. Back when SlashDot wasn't corporate, when the volume of articles was small enough to keep up with, when there were enough readers that actually went to the article. ... Hmm, how much has /. changed?

http:///..com [..com]

Unpossible

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Wow, who coulda seen THAT coming? (Besides everyone, I mean.)

It's like closing the bazaar where the arms dealers sell their wares, effectively removing the source of their income....do you think they aren't going to use some of their hardware on you to "correct" that "problem"?

DDoS protection testing

[charronia]

Nice server you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.

Fiverr

[DaMattster]

It could not have happened to a nicer (sic) company. The so-called gig economy takes people's real and valuable skills and reduces it to sweatshop compensation. Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk represent all of what is despicable about capitalism. I smiled when I read Fiverr got DDoS'd. Hopefully that cost them a bundle.

Fiverr did the right thing

[Igal Zeifman]

As one of the researches and authors of the original post (https://www.incapsula.com/blog/unmasking-ddos-for-hire-fiverr.html) I`m surprised to see the negative reactions towards Fiverr. Whatever your position is on gig economy--and I can understand both sides of the argument--in this case the Fiverr team deserves to be commended for their actions. Fiverr is a huge marketplace and it’s unreasonable to expect them to proactively screen all sellers and their offerings. However, once notified, they mov