This weekend, the popular crypto game STEPN, which uses Solana NFTs, was subjected to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the third in many months. “We have encountered several DDoS attacks over the past few hours,” the people behind the game said in a tweet on Sunday. “Securing the server and recovery may take from 1 to 12 hours.” 1/2We have been under multiple DDOS attacks in the past hours. Securing the servers and recovery may take anywhere from 1 to 12 hours. We recommend you take some rest during the maintenance or otherwise the work-outs may not be recorded properly. — STEPN | Public Beta Phase IV (@Stepnofficial) June 5, 2022 Another tweet read, “We recommend you take some rest during the maintenance or otherwise the work-outs may not be recorded properly. Our engineers are working hard to fix the problems.” This is a thread about our STEPN's latest version upgrade on ANTI-CHEATING: 1/5. First of all, we sincerely apologize to all the users who have been identified as bots. The moment this issue came to our knowledge, we started work on it immediately. — STEPN | Public Beta Phase IV (@Stepnofficial) June 4, 2022 Users were also alerted yesterday that the game was experiencing “network congestion” after being targeted by 25 million DDoS attempts in a short amount of time. A DDoS attack occurs when malicious actors attempt to knock a website down by flooding it with unnecessary traffic. Such attacks...
