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>Criminals will just hire a botnet ... if Tor proves ineffective. If not, then they'll definitely use Tor.
by omginternets 8y ago
>Criminals will just hire a botnet
... if Tor proves ineffective. If not, then they'll definitely use Tor.
- jstarfish 8y agoBotnets are too unreliable. They're only any good for coordinating DoS attacks and spamming, the sorts of attacks that don't require persistence of infrastructure. Tor is a common CnC and exfiltration vector. Nothing good will ever originate from a pseudoanonymous network developed for spycraft. We have enough problems with it that we shoot it on sight. The bigger problem is becoming abuse of cheap VPS and seedbox services (and anon VPNs) to launch attacks. $5 gets you a non-attributable box managed by an overseas entity with a gigabit link and an IP strategically located near your target to thwart geoip-based blocking. With that price point and features, why fuck around with botnets or Tor?
- user5994461 8y ago>>> The bigger problem is becoming abuse of cheap VPS and seedbox services (and anon VPNs) Cloudflare have the solution for that. You can ban by AS number and by country code.
- lucb1e 8y agoNot true for me. All the (email) spam, brute forcing and web vulnerability scans I'm getting on my servers come from normal IP addresses. It's very rare that anyone uses a Tor IP address.