ScummVM Wiki Fends Off Massive DDoS Attack with Anubis
2025-05-01
The ScummVM wiki website suffered a massive DDoS attack from roughly 35,000 IPs worldwide, causing an outage. Attackers exploited specific URLs to heavily load the database, exhausting resources on the Apache, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB servers. To counter this, the author deployed Anubis, a system using a proof-of-work mechanism to efficiently filter malicious requests. Anubis successfully defended against the attack with minimal server resource consumption, ensuring website uptime. Anubis not only effectively blocks AI scrapers but also functions as a DDoS protection system.
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