Anarchy at Americas Cardroom as DDoS attacks continue into the week

The Winning Poker Network’s flagship online poker site, America’s Cardroom, has been hit for six this weekend, after being plagued by Distributed Denial of Service cyberattacks.

The European police force Europol has confirmed that Dutch and British authorities has taken down the world’s largest marketplace for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattacks.

The investigation led to the arrest of six administrators of webstresser.org, the home of 136,000 users and the conduit for more than 4 million DDoS attacks. For as little as $18 per month, webstresser.org, allowed naughty boys and girls who like to pop balloons at kid’s birthday parties to rent stressers and booters to carry out DDoS attacks on people they didn’t like. And it seems none of these 4 million DDoS atatcks were aimed at Americas Cardroom (ACR) because for the past week they have been getting shafted like a bull elephant on a poodle.

Joey Ingram doesn’t believe that either the Winning Poker Network (WPN) or ACR have a security team, after finding several loopholes that allowed humans and bots to take advantage of him and other grinders on the site. And that may be so, but they do have a DDoS Mitigation Team according to a blog post that appeared on the ACR site this week.