Hey community, we are publishing this post to let users know beforehand that there are scammers running fake clones of our service. Do not access any website that claims to be us, but is not one of our main addresses.
Correct addresses:
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trocador.app
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trocadorfyhlu27aefre5u7zri66gudtzdyelymftvr4yjwcxhfaqsid.onion
Fake websites:
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troccador, troccadoor, trocadoor (any other typo)
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trocadupz35kdyzgqpadqor4jk7u4lmbo2(…).onion
Right now our services are suffering non-stop DDoS attacks for the last three weeks, and they are using ToR exit nodes to conduct such attack (both through clear net and onion). For this reason we had to turn off our Onion link, as we are working into pushing changes to mitigate the attack. There’s a chance that these fake websites might be related to the attack, they might be trying to lure users into their fake clones, so it is important to Bookmark the correct website. Stay safe! Our team is small, but we are working into going back to normal.–
I respect that. But I am also around long enough: Flooding attacks never lasted long in the past and did not cause permanent disruption. Iet’s not call it hacking, its plain old overloading. After 3-5 days its over usually and admins learnt a lot in that time. (Run a stressnet node!)
And BTW trocador.app is loading as fast as ever here. All the best, your customers just need patience.
Thanks! Yes, we are improving our firewall rules and this week we expect everything to be running smooth again.
Also look into PoW captchas as well, in case it helps :)
https://mcaptcha.org/
Someone said we should run a separate server to work as a load balancer and generate these captchas as they might consume processing from the server. We’ll look into it. Thanks!
haha i was literally about the suggest the exact same thing 💙
but yeah, basically become your own Cloudflare :)