The group cleverly harnessed the infrastructures of powerful online services — from Facebook and Twitter to Google’s search engine and Blogger — to do the heavy

The group cleverly harnessed the infrastructures of powerful online services — from Facebook and Twitter to Google’s search engine and Blogger — to do the heavy lifting, and may have run its enterprise with just a few computers. Some time ago there was a curious thread on Reddit, about multiple accounts and subreddits with thousands of posts looking like hash strings, somebody suggested those were encrypted instructions for botnets.