Arma Reforger And DayZ Victim Of Week Long DDOS Attack

Arma Reforger And DayZ Victim Of Week Long DDOS Attack

From TheGamer (Written by James Troughton) on | OpenCritic

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Over the last week, Bohemia Interactive has been the victim of a DDOS attack targeting Arma Reforger and DayZ servers.

As reported by Gamepressure, project lead Klamacz stated on January 30 that the issue "was resolved within a few hours", but just one day later, Twitter user @kevindenheijer replied, "It's down again".

I think we pi**ed someone off — project lead Klamacz.

A megathread dedicated to the server issues was opened yesterday on the Arma Reforger subreddit to contain the influx of complaints.

Bohemia Interactive, meanwhile, tweeted an official statement directly addressing the situation: "Dear community, we are aware of the technical issues currently affecting our games online and want to assure you that we are working round the clock to resolve them as soon as possible."

Several comments from last night claimed that the "Servers are back" and that Bohemia was finally able to stop the DDOS attack. But looking at the megathread, other players from just four hours ago report running into the same connection issues. The attack doesn't appear to be over just yet.

Russian hacking group Xiangjang_zhi swiftly took credit on February 1, and while it has been reported that the hackers want a ransom of 0.08...

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