引用自 Abrams the Sexy Blue Demon ⚣：

Why are people making a huge deal over a few outages?

Because it's more than a "few" outages.

引用自 Abrams the Sexy Blue Demon ⚣：

Steam went down as soon as Deadlock was updated on a Monday evening, then it went down again the next morning, and then there's weekly Tuesday maintenance in the afternoon.

Why are people making a huge deal over a few outages?

The point is to get people to talk about it. The more noise people make about it, the more lucrative the botnet becomes.

引用自 Chika Ogiue：

引用自 Abrams the Sexy Blue Demon ⚣：

Why are people making a huge deal over a few outages?

Because it's more than a "few" outages.

It's very unlikely that all these different gaming-related services would just coincidentally start having problems simultaneously.

This isn't just Steam's servers rebooting multiple times a day.

That being said, the person who controls the botnet is probably upset that they only managed to cause a minor annoyance.

引用自 Ben Lubar：

That being said, the person who controls the botnet is probably upset that they only managed to cause a minor annoyance.

Indeed, sucks to suck.

引用自 Mr. Smiles：

引用自 Ben Lubar：

That being said, the person who controls the botnet is probably upset that they only managed to cause a minor annoyance.

Indeed, sucks to suck.

Really doubtful that this recent string of various platform attacks was "just for fun".
More logical that it was a capacity demonstration for interested third parties.

引用自 Floid：

引用自 Mr. Smiles：

Indeed, sucks to suck.

Really doubtful that this recent string of various platform attacks was just "for fun".
More logical that it was a capacity demonstration for interested third parties.

And hypothetically, would demonstrating that they can at most cause a minor annoyance be something that helps that?

引用自 Ben Lubar：

引用自 Floid：

Really doubtful that this recent string of various platform attacks was just "for fun".
More logical that it was a capacity demonstration for interested third parties.

And hypothetically, would demonstrating that they can at most cause a minor annoyance be something that helps that?

Who knows. Maybe the denial of service it'self is not the main end - if it's just gonna be an ancillary part of a wider scoped attack, that also includes other vectors for other ends - or maybe it was to show that they do indeed have a large volume of compromised devices that could be leveraged in other ways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whatever the reasons may be, simultaneous multi-platform attacks like that don't happen these days because some script kiddies wanted to cause annoyance. They usually serve some sort of larger purpose.

Why that it feels like someone is testing new tech or ai capabilities.

引用自 DeLurkingHermit：

Why that it feels like someone is testing new tech or ai capabilities.

I have been having connection issues with Steam for the last couple of days, if you're getting the same, try restarting your network adaptor, that seems to resolve it, at least for a while.

Everything else seems to work perfectly, until I log in to Steam, then the issues start.