Realms and services being affected by another DDoS attack

Author: Furious
Date: September 8, 2019
Updated: October 7, 2020
Expansion: WoW Classic

For the second day running there seems to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack happening causing disruption on multiple servers and realms.

There is an active thread on reddit as well as multiple posts on the official WoW Classic forums where there are complaints of the following realms being affected:

Benediction
Bigglesworth
Fairbanks
Grobbulus
Incendius
Kirtonos
Kromcrush
Mankrik
Myrael
Netherwind
Pagle
Rattlegore
Skeram
Smolderweb
Stalagg
Sulfuras
Thalnos
Thunderfury
Whitemane
Windseeker

@BlizzardCS has posted this update on Twitter

[#Bnet] We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.

— Blizzard CS – The Americas (@BlizzardCS) September 8, 2019

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Furious

If I'm not working or spending time with the family I'm probably gaming. Some of my favorite recent games I've played are Far Cry 5, World of Warcraft Classic, and 7 Days to Die.