The ongoing DDoS had shifted gears and they're attacking database intense functions of the stats from thousands of IPs making it hard to filter.
Its causing *stats side* database replication lag, which is playing havoc with random hashrate calcs.
Pool side (ie: the important stuff like earnings) are not affected.
The attackers goal seems to be to stir up confusion. Judging by these posts its unfortunately working. :-/
Thanks for the update. Do you have any idea how much assets you would need to get a better protection? If I or we all had a better idea, I'd go for a crowd-funding-round.
Not really the point. I honestly am pretty irritated that some person or group has decided that Eligius, a project I volunteer my free time and resources towards, is to be their target without even any reasons or explanations given.
It's very discouraging and I'm at the end of my patience trying to deal with it.
So, I just ask that everyone please understand that I can't keep dedicating time and effort into combating this pointless attack when other items on the list are more important. I've spent many many hours hardening the pool side against this so that miner earnings arent effected.
To the attacker(s): I don't know what you want. Please let me know what I've possibly done to deserve a now approaching 3 week long attack and what can be done to rectify it. I have no real funds (nor does the pool) to pay any ransom demands so there is no point in that. In any case, I kindly ask that you stop this nonsense.
same thing on my stats page - most (but only 12/15) miners are showing about 20-30% slower speeds. My single bitfury unit looks unaffected along with 2 antminers. the other antminers all sit about 40GH less. hopefully this is just stats-side in which case I can deal with it for a while like with the fail-safe - but it would be nice if there was an objective way to check the pool hashrate (blocks solved on blockchain might show this, but would need 3+ hours of data to be remotely close to an actual average)
There is not much reason why a single person or very small group would go to these efforts against you for such a long period - the goal unless its personal against you just isnt clear in terms of benefit to him/her/them
A government entity makes no sense. They have very little to gain from destabilising a mining pool if it is not actually directly damaging the network hashrate. Thier attacks would be far more effective on trading or bitcoin news sites.
My guess is that some other pool is responsible. A pool attacking would work to shake loose eligius users to join other pools (presumably more stable, larger ones that charge larger fees - *cough*) - This theory serves a direct financial benefit to the attacker.
tl;dr - There are are 3 likely suspects...
