Our counter measures have deflected the unwanted traffic from the DDoS attack and overnight monitoring shows the platform has returned to normal performance. Visitors will no longer see a brief message about checking their browser before being taken to the page they requested.
Posted Aug 17, 2015 - 08:56 PDT
Monitoring
We identified the attack was coming from more than 14,000 unique IP addresses and blocked their primary attack vector. We're monitoring to ensure that these measures are effective at deflecting the malicious traffic.
To continue to help mitigate the attack, some visitors may briefly see a message that their browser is being checked before being redirected to the page they requested. Learn more about this security measure in the Reach Community: https://community.lexblog.com/reach/topics/gray-attack-screen
Posted Aug 16, 2015 - 13:05 PDT
Update
To help mitigate the attack, visitors may briefly see a message that their browser is being checked before being redirected to the page they are visiting. Learn more about this security measure in the Reach Community: https://community.lexblog.com/reach/topics/gray-attack-screen
Posted Aug 15, 2015 - 15:58 PDT
Identified
We are mitigating a denial of service attack (DoS) against the LexBlog platform powered by WordPress.
Visitors and publishers will experience longer page load times while we work to block the attack.