VirusTotal under DDoS Attack?

Tom.K · Apr 24, 2010

It seems that right now VirusTotal is overloaded with 12,000 files which causes you to wait forever (over 1 hour actually).

Warning!
VirusTotal is supporting a high workload at this moment.
The scanning process of your sample can take over 15 minutes. We suggest you to use the email interface in these situations. Follow the instructions on the "Email" page to do so.
If you wish you still can submit your sample via this interface.

The possible cause is that someone is probably trying to attack VirusTotal using botnets... although i'm not sure.

As you can see, it started at 22 o'clock and keeps going...

It seems that W32/RAHack causes this problem...

This is right now updated list of detections:

Code:

2010.04.24 00:31:27 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:27 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:16 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:16 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:15 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:15 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:15 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:04 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:31:04 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:58 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:58 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:58 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:58 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:52 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:52 W32/RAHack
2010.04.24 00:30:52 W32/Ridnu

Still no news from other sites...