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No word on the origin of these attacks? This must require massive amounts of hardware, you’d imagine it to be easily traceable unless some kind of botnet.
by ricardobeat 3y ago
No word on the origin of these attacks? This must require massive amounts of hardware, you’d imagine it to be easily traceable unless some kind of botnet.
- danpalmer 3y agoOne could imagine that, given the size, it could be politically or legally sensitive to announce the origin.
- ricardobeat 3y agoThe silence is actually already giving it away then, one of four options.
- blagie 3y agoEnumerate, please.
- KolmogorovComp 3y agoI assume China, Iran, North-Korea or Russia (in alphabetical order).
- lionkor 3y agoUS enemy one, two, three and four (whoever is trendy to blame right now)
- persedes 3y agoLooking at the scale of those that's what I figured too, but one of the previous largest ones (mirai) was targeting a minecraft server (...). Krebs has some interesting write ups on Mirai.
- knorker 3y agoCloudflare explicitly says it's an unknown threat actor: https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-recor...
- tyingq 3y agoThat's the particularly bad news, this attack does NOT require a really huge botnet. https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-recor... "Furthermore, one crucial thing to note about the record-breaking attack is that it involved a modestly-sized botnet, consisting of roughly 20,000 machines"
- grotorea 3y ago20000 being modest really says a lot about the state of security on the Internet.
- superhuzza 3y agoOr does it say more about the sheer number of devices connected to the internet?
- tyingq 3y agoWell, 20000 to hit 201 million requests per second and give Cloudflare problems. You wouldn't need that to make problems for many sites.
- londons_explore 3y agoDistribute just one warez game with your malware embedded and you'll have well over 20,000 hosts under your control.
- mattigames 3y agoIs there any major popular account that distributes cracked games that has been found to do such thing? I have seen some popular accounts that create their own installers ("repacks") and the installation takes a suspiciously long time and a huge amount of RAM while is installing.
- paulddraper 3y ago*the size of
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- tootie 3y agoThe immediate assumption is that Iran is doing it. They have done it many times before and they are allied with Hamas. I haven't seen any proof but it's a safe bet.
- londons_explore 3y agoA novel attack like this done at small scale like this is probably just a script kiddie experimenting. An actual nation state would have tested it fully internally and started on the public internet at a scale bigger than 20,000 machines.
- bjacobel 3y agoThis happened in late August and early September.