Tag: denial of service attacks

10-31-2025: Denial-of-service attack on my WordPress

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The view count increased by 100 in just one hour since I first received a notification from WordPress. The numbers just aren’t adding up, and my website is experiencing slow access issues. The last time this happened, it was due to a denial-of-service attack about a year ago when I was deeply involved in researching the Philippines’ ‘Assertive Transparency Initiative.’ It’s interesting how these issues have resurfaced now that I’ve returned to this topic. Unfortunately, I let my Netgear Armor security subscription lapse, so I didn’t receive any notifications this time.

Previous DDoS attacks:

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Catfished?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Remember when I posted about Epieos? I looked up a couple of email addresses besides my own. That was after I used InfoTracer (a data broker). It was only $2 to do a search. Be sure to cancel right afterward, or you’ll end up paying a monthly fee. I still need to opt out so they don’t sell my personal data.

Do they really think that I’m stupid, though? I do online research for a hobby. The Substack subscription came the day after my article was published on Antiwar.com. My blog gets spammed every week, sometimes twice a week. Every week, someone tries to shut my blog down with a denial-of-service attack. This, ever since I started researching “Project Myoushu,” last year. Of course, I’m going to be suspicious!

This particular scam may be unrelated, but I’ve been suspicious ever since they contacted me. I’ve only told them what I’ve said here, in personal posts that are now private. No, I didn’t fall for the bullshit about me being interesting (or being beautiful), and them wanting to be in a relationship, when they don’t even know me!

Their email doesn’t come up with anything, except for their Google Maps and Calendar, which are both empty. Their IP is located at Google. The Dalles Google Data Center in Oregon to be exact (per InfoTracer). Google is registered with MarkMonitor (a U.S. government contractor).

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DoS Attack 10-12-2024

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The last one that I noticed was on June 11, 2024. I believe that I got a few false alerts, as they didn’t coincide with my visits to the site.

Usually, these DoS attacks happen the day after I post something with my research. The only thing that I posted on the 11th was about Japan and the Unification Church. It wasn’t anything too extensive. It was the 12th that I posted about the Philippine Army visiting the Sixteenth Air Force, which is responsible for information warfare.