Ubisoft is suing the owners of a site that sells DDoS service. Through this site the servers of Rainbow Six: victories attacked regularly.
What is this for a page? For a long time, the Ubisoft shooter had major problems with DDoS attacks, which extremely slowed down their servers and led to connection problems and crashes. The main reason for this was probably the website SNG.ONE.
The owners of this site offered anyone who was willing to pay the opportunity to “test the protection of their service against DDoS attacks”. So it looked like it was a way for developers to run stress tests on their servers, for example.
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In fact, users used this page to load the servers of Rainbow Six: Siege and other games with DDoS attacks.
The alleged owners of the site made no secret of it and publicly mocked Ubisoft on social media. They sent malicious tweets with meme images to Ubisoft’s official support account.
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That was the cost of the subscription: The monthly subscription to the DDoS service was $ 30 and users could even purchase a lifetime subscription for just under $ 300.
The paying customers were not only able to terrorize Rainbow Six: Siege. Games like FIFA 20, Fortnite and CoD: Modern Warfare 4 were also on the list of goals.
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What did Ubisoft do? The publisher announced a number of measures last year to take action against the DDoS attacks. One of them was the injunction against the alleged owner of the site, which was filed with the California court on January 16.
In it, Ubisoft explains that the alleged website owners knew exactly what damage they were doing. Also because they publicly mocked the company on Twitter.
In addition, they have repeatedly posted the wrong message on the DDoS website that the page had been taken over by Ubisoft or Microsoft. The accused admitted that.
In his lawsuit, the publisher therefore demands that the website be taken offline and that damages be paid. However, the sum for this was not specified.
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Did it work? Ubisoft’s measures have been successful. Since the lawsuit was announced in September 2019, the number of DDoS attacks against the Rainbow Six: Siege servers has declined by a whopping 93%.
Ubisoft is also now working with Microsoft on a permanent solution to better protect against future DDoS attacks.
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