FraudWatchers back from the dead

Earlier I posted that www.fraudwatchers.org had made the decision to stay offline permanently due to a significant DDoS attack they had suffered. This is what the administration team were saying.

With assistance from various individuals, organisations, and hosters to provide them with a ‘monitoring’ server facility, they are back online.

As you may or may not be aware, FraudWatchers.org has been under DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks by what is now known as the 'Storm' botnet (robot network). Investigations have shown that these specific attacks against ours and other anti-scam sites were initiated by criminals located in Africa and Eastern Europe, in order to avoid details of their activities from being made known and discussed.

 

These attacks have somewhat diminished over the recent past, due to preventative action being taken at all levels, from Government and backbone internet suppliers, to Hosting providers and ISPs.

We are very glad to be back online, and pleased that we are able, once again, to offer the information resources at our disposal, and help ensure that crimes on the internet are minimized through education and outreach.

It is possible (and perhaps likely) that these attacks will once again resume. We would like to assure all our members, guests and visitors that, although we may be forced offline at times, this is only temporary, and we have every intention (like the proverbial bad penny) of coming back every time, to assist all of you as and when necessary.

Thank you for your patience, support and valuable contributions to our resources.

The FraudWatchers Administration Team.

FraudWatchers website

Considering they are one of the best sites around, this is truly great news.