Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reported that 8kun and a group of related conspiracy-theory sites went offline around the time of the January 6 committee hearing, and that the outage was caused by KrebsOnSecurity contacting Psychz Networks, which then removed hosting firm VanwaTech from its network. 8kun and the other sites subsequently moved to a Russian hosting provider (AS207651) connected through AS31500 and AS28917 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Why it matters: The takedown depended on a single upstream provider in Los Angeles that was the sole Internet lifeline for 8kun, and the sites were back online through Russian infrastructure shortly after - a reminder that a hosting dependency can be a single point of failure in either direction.
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