Ubisoft is suing the owners of a site that sells DDoS services. This site has regularly attacked the servers of Rainbow Six: Siege.
What kind of site is this? For a long time, Ubisoft’s shooter experienced significant problems with DDoS attacks, which severely slowed their servers and led to connection issues and crashes. This was primarily due to the website SNG.ONE.
The owners of this site offered anyone who was willing to pay the opportunity to “test the protection of their service against DDoS attacks.” It seemed like this was, for example, a way for developers to run stress tests on their servers.
In reality, users exploited this site to burden the servers of Rainbow Six: Siege and other games with DDoS attacks.
The alleged owners of the site did not make a secret of it and publicly mocked Ubisoft on social media. They sent mocking tweets with meme images to the official support account of Ubisoft.
The costs for the subscription: The monthly subscription for the DDoS service was $30, and users could even purchase a lifetime subscription for just $300.
The paying customers could not only terrorize Rainbow Six: Siege. Games like FIFA 20, Fortnite, and CoD: Modern Warfare 4 were also on the list of targets.
What did Ubisoft do? The publisher announced last year a whole series of measures to combat the DDoS attacks. One of them was the cease-and-desist order against the alleged owners of the site, which was filed in court in California on January 16.
In it, Ubisoft states that the alleged owners of the website were fully aware of the damage they were causing. This was also because they mocked the company publicly on Twitter.
Additionally, they repeatedly published false reports on the DDoS website that the site had been taken over by Ubisoft or Microsoft. This was admitted by the defendants.
The publisher therefore demands in its lawsuit that the website be taken offline and that damages be paid. However, the amount has not been specified.
Did it help? Ubisoft’s measures seem to have been successful. Since the announcement of the lawsuit in September 2019, the number of DDoS attacks against the servers of Rainbow Six: Siege has reportedly decreased by a staggering 93% according to the company’s own statement.
Ubisoft is now also working with Microsoft on a permanent solution to better protect against future DDoS attacks.
