Distributed denial-of-service attacks have posed an increasingly severe problem for cryptocurrency exchanges and mining pools in recent weeks.
Last month, several major pools in the mining community suffered debilitating DDoS attacks that resulted in significant delays, lost mining time and frustration for miners.
In extreme cases, as explained by TeamDoge administrator Forrest Suqua, some pools received ransom messages from hackers demanding payoffs in exchange for pulling back their attacks.
March 02, 2014 at 02:20PM
