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Funny, stories like this to me always read as someone hacking themselves for job security; clearly not the case. Curious who the target was Cloudflare, or their
by nxzero 11y ago
Funny, stories like this to me always read as someone hacking themselves for job security; clearly not the case. Curious who the target was Cloudflare, or their clients.
- stepvhen 11y agoThe article mentions some of the recent attacks were on fairly benign websites, though that's subjective and could be construed as a sales pitch.
- nxzero 11y agoMissed that, thanks. Seems if they truly were websites of little note that the target was likely Cloudflair; my opinion, though guessing if they went down, the real attack would happen.
- eastdakota 11y agoTargets are typically clients. Sometimes we can reasonable speculate as to motive, other times we're perplexed. One example: we saw a huge uptick in attacks targeting adoption agencies. Couldn't figure it out until we learned that adoption of Russian children by US/EU parents was a major hot button political issue in Russia. In other words, there's always a motive, it's just not always clear to us what it is.
- nxzero 11y agoYeah, that's obvious to me that the adoption sites like that are targets, but see how it be bit puzzling off the cuff, or something of the sort. Not sure in fact what for sure would be a target that clearly lacks anything of note.
- eastdakota 11y agoUsually forums of one sort or another. Obviously they're being attacked for something that's being posted there, but usually we have no idea exactly what or why.