BugSmash blocks gambling site after receiving 37.1M requests in 24 hours
Tactics · Reddit · stat: 37.1M BugSmash suffered server outages after a user abused its new "drop" hosting feature to deploy a live gambling site. The exploit forced the team to block the project and…
Tactics · Reddit · stat: 37.1M
BugSmash suffered server outages after a user abused its new "drop" hosting feature to deploy a live gambling site. The exploit forced the team to block the project and implement pre-upload verification checks, but only after the site racked up 37.1 million requests in 24 hours.
Unrestricted file-drop features are an instant magnet for bad actors Founders launching quick-hosting tools must implement rate limits and content scanning on day one to prevent catastrophic infrastructure bills.
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