THE DAY ANUBIS SAVED OUR WEBSITES FROM A DDOS ATTACK

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The ScummVM project's server infrastructure faced a DDoS attack that saturated resources and brought down their website. The attack originated from numerous IP addresses, making traditional blocking methods ineffective, and the URLs targeted were resource-intensive. Anubis is a program that filters connections and uses a proof-of-work challenge to distinguish legitimate users from bots, which ended up mitigating the attack.