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I've got a theory that DDOS services need to "demonstrate" their abilities to the black market, to prove that they're legitimate. Blender is an ideal target: hi
by dragontamer 3y ago
I've got a theory that DDOS services need to "demonstrate" their abilities to the black market, to prove that they're legitimate. Blender is an ideal target: high profile, with enough technical expertise to post and publish the details of the DDOS.
Its not that anyone "wanted" to hurt Blender per se. Its that the DDOS service / black hat group wants to publicly demonstrate themselves and advertise their services.
At least, that's my running theory why otherwise "innocent" projects (like Blender) get attacked like this. Anyone have any other theories why Blender could be targeted?
- Turing_Machine 3y agoSeems like a reasonable theory to me. I haven't heard that Blender has made any real enemies. Neither is likely they'd be able to pay a lot of ransom (they're pretty well funded for a FOSS project, but not in the range that would make them the most attractive ransom target).
- fragmede 3y agoMy then-company's site was once threatened for the princely sum of one Bitcoin, back when they were $5,000. Blender has that much to pay in ransom, if they capitulated.
- Frivolous9421 3y agoNot a theory, you see this all the time, people used to packet pastebin.com a lot for some reason
- tambourine_man 3y agoI was exactly thinking “why would anyone want to hurt Blender?” as I read the article. Your theory makes a lot of sense.
- cozzyd 3y agoPerhaps the residents of Flatland are at it again.
- jachee 3y agoOne hole in that theory is that Blender didn’t explicitly mention what DDoS-mitigation service they’re using, so no particular service is getting any advertising/exposure benefit from the attack.
- dehugger 3y agoI think the parent means people offering DDoS-as-a-service, not DDoS mitigation services.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoBlender did buy a DDoS mitigation services as a result.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoIt's enough to demonstrate necessity.
- dragontamer 3y agoI'm not saying that DDOS mitigation companies did this. It is sufficient for a black market DDOS-as-a-service company to do this for marketing.
- jachee 3y agoAha! Sort of like Vader showing off the Death Star on Alderaan. I’m so white-hat that I didn’t consider that interpretation.
- dragontamer 3y ago> Sort of like Vader showing off the Death Star on Alderaan. Grand Moff Tarkin showing off the Death Star to Vader (and everyone else). But yes, I get your point, even if you misremembered the movie slightly :-). Episode 4 was very intriguing because Grand Moff Tarkin (and the Emperor) are the only two people in Episode4/5/6 that Vader listens to. I know that there's plenty of Disney spinoffs at this point, but more spinoffs that analyze Grand Moff Tarkin would be a good thing.
- hackideiomat 3y agoDDoS is also a good distraction from actual attacks tho
- tetris11 3y agoor a racket for cloud providers to drum up some demand