Behind The T1 DDoS Attacks

The T1 DDoS drama is worse than we thought

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Chapters:
0:00 Behind the attacks
3:10 Unpacking Swissknife
5:53 The bounty
9:00 A theory
11:11 Analyzing an attack
13:03 Closing thoughts

[r.v.jscourge]

DDoS and hand injury but he still won worlds twice in a row

[HACKERNEWS]

this is a real problem in multiple games, i got hit offline 2 times in a week by kids who have something called nightmare stresser or booter or something like that, i am getting sick and tired of this... if someone has a fix other than a vpn please tell me the vpn is too slow and laggy

[trevorryder]

To think they still endured and won worlds. Insane

[ChonkyBoi_yt]

It's even more impressive T1 managed to win so many worlds with this bs

[shadowimagery]

Being able to DDoS people in solo queue is one thing, but being able to DDoS people during a professional match is unacceptable. Pro matches and/or scrims should not be pinging the RIOT servers in any capacity. It's unnecessary when we have the technology to create private servers that don't require an internet connection to the outside world. RIOT has billions of dollars in revenue every year and they actively choose to not use this type of setup during pro matches when it's stupid simple to do with their resources. Absolutely disgusting.

[SilverDarkin]

its obvious what's happening, clearly they're just writing the T1 player's names in the Lag Note

[Xshifto]

my best guess is gambling, if they can win money by ddossing to win bets...that's a lot of money and its a lot more money if they also own a betting platform.

[alcatraz]

knowing how useless riot is, I can Imagine someone from the comunity exposing them out, however that would not solve the problem, it is just shitty for everyone

[whynot]

Love these longer form style videos, always so well researched - keep them coming!

[Nokomak]

The motivation is not clear? Please!
You'd have to have been living under a rock to not see the gigantic hate this team is subjected to. More than anyone the EU fans.
The team is the greatest of all time. Undeniably so and they do everything they can to sabotage the "T1 empire" as it's labeled every time T1 wins. A moniker that's not with positive intent but scorn. Trying to make them seem like oppressors.
People can't accept that to beat them you just gotta git gud.

[asdf]

$100k is laughably small amount of money.. back in the days, hackers were hired if they can breach a company security. now, corporations try to sue you out of existence. They never want to admit that their cyber security is garbage, instead, they want to jail people who want to advance the cyber security space

[Wizard]

The chinese hackers thinking they would win a Worlds by ddosing t1

[vrygon]

The reward is UP TO 100k
This means that should you expose the hacker(s) and give riot the info, they don't have to give you all the money if they don't want to

[doje]

With these i have more respect on Faker he stayed on this team for 11 years or more i think and still counting. It’s not easy to play for T1 great org but there are group of people out there trying to sabotage them.

[lioneagle]

Pretty insane documentary style video, good work Ryscu. I especially liked the animations you put in.

[blue-pineapple]

What people not familiar with the Korean league scene outside of the pro scene don't realize is that the famous league streamers and 3rd party events and tourneys are getting ddos'd quite frequently even without T1 playing league. T1 is ofc the No.1 target of ddos whenever they stream, but there seem to be multiple attackers that are not related to each other. Like there's this one person who's been targetting one specific streamer and even stops ddosing for just one game after countless attacks because the streamer begged to stop. I'm assuming the attacker wanted to feel like a higher being than the streamer with this whole thing. I only heard this part from the streamer's fans, but it seems like this particular attacker understands Korean and has interacted with the streamer in such ways even the streamers realized they can communicate with the attacker. The streamers and 3rd party tourneys constantly getting ddos'd is ruining the casual league scene as streamers are playing league less, some completely stopping the league stream. A lot of these streamers are struggling because their fanbase is built on league, but they can't play league and therefore basically cannot make the same income as before. Imagine if Caedrel, Jankos, theBaus, Doublelift, Sneaky, Tyler1 etc all got ddos'd and tournaments like NNO cup got ddos'd too. I feel like there would be way more outrage right now. It's been awfully quiet for how many people are suffering in Korea. They've been getting ddos'd before T1 started getting ddos'd and they are still getting ddos'd right now constantly.

[ImaskarDono]

I'm really not getting the confusion there. The teammates of T1 are targeted, so improvements in the T1 infrastructure are irrelevant. Vanguard might have the same vulnerability as Xigncode, or maybe even the game itself.
IP changing periodically is irrelevant here, just a waste of time. First, it's still pretty stable, second, the attacker target T1's teammates.
$100k is still a very small bounty compared to the size of the problem.

[realOGvoli]

it actually backfired and t1 won because of that.
Just like in mma how fighters stopped sparring before fights because it cause unnecessary damage and fatigue so they are more fresh and powerful in the fight day.

Same thing happened with t1 because professional players practice and play under so much stress they get a lot of wrist relax injuries but because of ddos they actually had less practice fatigue and more rest time.
Giving them a chance to recover for even better performance.

Professional are known to be push them selves too and there definitely is such a thing as over training.

[nottherealmana]

It's obviously the Chinese. Who else would do that? Those will surely do something like that.

[fleokan]

DDoS being an issue in 2024 is just scream unprofessionalism for Riot DevOps and net coders, nothing more.