Since early 2024 various top League of Legends professional teams have been experiencing targeted DDoS preventing them from practice.
This has resulted in significant stress in the players being unable to prepare for critical tournaments, including one of the top players being driven to self-harm in frustration captured on camera[0].
Despite the professional teams securing their networking infrastructure to mitigate DDoS against their own players, attackers are still able disrupt their practice sessions by targeting instead their teammates in their public rank games who are randomly match-made by the system and do not benefit from such protection.
Some speculate that some form of IP leakage is caused by the anticheat implemented by Riot Games that allows the IP address of the players to be snooped simply from the player in-game nicknames accessible in public API.
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Since early 2024 various top League of Legends professional teams have been experiencing targeted DDoS preventing them from practice.
This has resulted in significant stress in the players being unable to prepare for critical tournaments, including one of the top players being driven to self-harm in frustration captured on camera[0].
Despite the professional teams securing their networking infrastructure to mitigate DDoS against their own players, attackers are still able disrupt their practice sessions by targeting instead their teammates in their public rank games who are randomly match-made by the system and do not benefit from such protection.
Some speculate that some form of IP leakage is caused by the anticheat implemented by Riot Games that allows the IP address of the players to be snooped simply from the player in-game nicknames accessible in public API.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_O4CkAEZXk