Pizzagate Wiki vs. Robot Army: How a Reddit post about Laura Silsby and Max Maccoby broke the Internet
Two days ago the Pizzagate Wiki experienced an unprecedented DDoS attack for several continuous hours. At the exact same time the Wiki was experiencing a massive surge in users being directed from a Reddit post on convicted child trafficker Laura Silsby. This makes the fourth major cyberattack against the Pizzagate Wiki following attacks on the original Pizzagate Review, the Wiki's DynCorp page and the Wiki's Stratfor page.
In addition to these new users, a huge wave of bots came with them and proceeded to overwhelm the Pizzagate Wiki server, starting with the curiously named, "mj12bot".
Apparently mj12bot is part of a United Kingdom search engine founded by Alex Chudnovsky whose mission for MJ12 is this:
Since the task of building a World Wide Web search engine is so huge, we have chosen to make Majestic-12 Distributed Search Engine based on the concept of distributed computing. The idea being that many machines work on one task to get it done quicker than one large machine alone.
Apparently this "distributed search engine" felt the need to assault my Franklin Scandal, Max Maccoby, Laura Silsby and other pages with thousands upon thousands of 0-byte requests from different IPs. MJ12bot was easy to spot, however, as it was listed and visible in the visitor's "User Agent", and was quickly blocked.
In a matter of seconds, however, new bots arrived. Almost a hundred different "ocarinabots", "FAKE USER AGENTS" and various other bizarre User Agents were assaulting the Pizzagate Wiki with similar, 0-byte requests.
Curiously enough, for many hours the only users able to connect to the Pizzagate Wiki were from Georgetown, FL.
After playing virtual chess with a literal army of robots, I was able to stop the attacks for the time being and users from the Reddit thread were able to see the relevant information they needed for the most part.
Why, however, was the link between Laura Silsby and Max Maccoby targeted this time around? For posterity, here is what is written in Max Maccoby's section for the Pizzagate Wiki on Laura Silsby's page, which was the epicenter of the attack:
Connection to Max Maccoby and James Achilles Alefantis
James Achilles Alefantis is friends with Michael Maccoby. Michael's son, Max Maccoby, is a Director of Friends of the Orphans, the charity Laura Silsby was given children from while in Haiti.(22), (23) , (24)
This same Max Maccoby also represented James Achilles Alefantis and David Brock for an $850,000 blackmail case.(25)
More details and in-depth analysis on the attack will be published in this week's Rebel Outpost, but I thought it worth mentioning here in case it were to escalate further and actually damage the Pizzagate Wiki. It is unlike any attack I have ever seen in my life, but is clearly from an advanced botnet.
Thank you all and keep up the good fight!
Must be a sensitive area. Funny how they draw even more attention to it by going on the offensive.
@richq11 has posted on numerous occasions that McCoby is an important link.
Apparently so. I don't even know who made that Reddit post, but it was pretty much simultaneous with the DDoS attack.
Good job, def upvoted and re-steemed.
If they are using an advanced botnet to attack you, you must be over the target.
It's never the exact same and they only get more sophisticated. It's giving me some interesting experience, but all-be-damned if the aren't tenacious.
What I imagine Imperials to be like...
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Upvoted and resteemed!
---Homa
Thanks for the support and keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
It clearly connects the dots.
Page-specific attacks have really put certain things into perspective
Thank you for this interesting contribution. Very strange activity indeed.
Will repost this @phibetaiota and hopefully get more eyeballs on it.
~The Management.
Thanks! Any info on the attackers is more than welcome and can help prevent future attacks!