DDoS attacks affecting VATSIM availability August 3

Published by PAY1985 | Gordon G / published on August 3, 2026, 2:58 pm

Monitoring Around 6z this morning, another DDoS attack began targeting our infrastructure, resulting in servers being blackholed again. Degraded performance or loss of connectivity should be expected whilst the attack is ongoing. We're continuing to investigate mitigation methods.

Affected Web Services → Connect, AFV → API, Voice Server, FSD → Amsterdam, Germany 1, USA East 2, Canada, USA West, USA East 1, United Kingdom, Germany 2