And it wasn’t the first time.
The second day in a row, michaeltyler.co.uk has been hit by a Denial of Service attack eminating from ‘Google Cloud Services‘.
Each time, in the early hours of the morning, I’m visited by the ‘Google Cloud Service‘ bot, which subsequently visits ever page on my site in quick succession.
It’s called an
Asymmetric attack
(In this this type of attack, Application Layer receives high-workload requests that consume server resources such as RAM.)
This places an unnaturally high demand on the servers CPU, slowing the server down, and if left, possibly blowing it up. To stop this happening, when the CPU gets warm, it automatically designates the source and shuts it down, putting the offending site on error.
Each time, I’ve been able to trace the source of the problem to Google Cloud Services.
Google Cloud Services caching sites for their owners, but it’s closing my site down, maliciously!
Tracking code
Usually when you sign on to some sort of BOT activity on your site, you’re asked to put a verification code on there, to confirm that it’s actually you requesting the traffic, not some rogue element wishing to take your website down.
You as the owner, actively sign-on to have your site crawled. Continue reading “Google attacked my website! – Google Cloud Services DoS attack”