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I have a brief story to tell: Earlier this week, a large DDoS attack against 2 out of our larger set of #Tor (@…) relays - which also act as stable HSDir nodes - has managed to partially interrupt Internet traffic for the whole #JKULinz. While the attack was not huge compared to others (peak traffic around 3-4 Gbit/s, well above 1M PPS), we suspect either a nation state actor or fairly well-funded organization for 3 reasons:
* The attack was more advanced than simply saturating the upstream with bandwidth/packets, but had proper handshakes with the Tor relays, trying to cause resource exhaustion on the application level (we have seen this pattern multiple times in the last 6 months, but this one was much more massive in terms of incoming packets).
* The attack was very targeted, affecting only 2 IPs out of 25, consistently over some time. This indicates that either the position in the HSDir or specific connections or hidden services that were relayed over those nodes were the target - but note that these are only guesses, we don't have hard data on the motivation of this targeting.
* The only motivations that come to mind are either de-anonymization attacks or take-downs of particular hidden services. These do not seem to be relevant for usual ransom DDoS botnet attackers, but more for political reasons.
We have some flow data and would be interested in doing more analysis. Any ideas or correlation with other data on Tor relay attacks welcome :)
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The trial in the New York hush money case (which is also an election interference case) has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday.
Merchan said the trial — originally scheduled to begin March 25 — would be pushed back 30 days from Friday.
He also scheduled a hearing for the trial's initial start date, to discuss a motion filed by Trump's attorneys regarding document production in the case.
Merchan said he will set a new trial date “if…

Trump hush money trial postponed until mid-April, judge rules
The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday.

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Note that we strongly suspect the interruption of university traffic to have been collateral damage, and not the target of the attack. All indicators point to the two specific @… relays to have been the real target. Funnily enough, one of them was automatically restarted because of resource exhaustion, and otherwise the relays kept working.
We also know why the collateral outage happened, but first want to analyze it further and potentially talk to the network device vendor before I can publicly release more details. There may be a coordinated disclosure process in our near term future...

The trial in the New York hush money case (which is also an election interference case) has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday.
Merchan said the trial — originally scheduled to begin March 25 — would be pushed back 30 days from Friday.
He also scheduled a hearing for the trial's initial start date, to discuss a motion filed by Trump's attorneys regarding document production in the case.
Merchan said he will set a new trial date “if…

Trump hush money trial postponed until mid-April, judge rules
The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday.