The attack is still ongoing and I'm weighing my options for mitigating it. There's some third-party offers but I'd like to inhouse. For now, I've moved us to the haproxy-protection by Thomas Lynch from Fatchan which has been protecting our Tor node for months.

Liz Fong-Jones has been working on a way of busting this proof-of-work system. I don't know if this work has been rolled out to a botnet yet. He is still sending complaints to upstreams basically every day from his work email.

I'm considering of developing a more robust anti-bot library in Rust using haproxy as a webserver.

The patch sale is still running btw. I'm going to order more sets, so you'll have to wait a bit but you've not missed out.

That's your status update for today. Hope you all had a merry Christmas!