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Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on
by Simon_ORourke 2y ago
Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoMy thoughts exactly, what is the point of attacking a library... so lame... =/
- dxdm 2y agoMaybe it's a form of advertising certain capabilities and services.
- neilv 2y agoIIUC, that's always a good theory for unexplained DDoS. Though, even if they have only profit motivations, I'm a little surprised when they don't seem to let ideology influence their selection of targets for demos. For the sake of argument (maybe not true), let's say that all techies are aware of archive.org, and consider it beneficial, probably using it themselves. Why don't they instead demo against a target that will be proof of capability, and one that someone won't pay them to do (no freebies), yet one that they perceive as bad or deserving in some way? Probably improper to suggest "better" targets here, but I really wonder what's going on when some relative do-gooder gets attacked. Similarly, ransomware attack on a children's hospital, of all places? Doesn't that get you uninvited to criminal mastermind dinner parties? As Omar of "The Wire" told us, a man's gotta have a code.
- floam 2y agoOne thing to keep in mind m about LockBit ransomeware was it was SaaS — errr RaaS — and there is a good chance the target was picked by an insider there, or it was at least some opportunistic hacker not really associated with those who provided the service, besides signing up as an affiliate. LockBit was so successful partly because they didn’t have to hack anyone themselves. It was basically something advertised “Got SSH or RDP access? Let’s make a bunch of money.” This attracted hackers who might not trust themselves to do the extortion part safely, as well as people who didn’t actually hack anything but hated their boss, wanted a payday.
- fmajid 2y agoExtortion is usually the motive. “Nice porn/gambling/crypto website you’ve got here. Shame if something happened to it”.
- aniviacat 2y agoPerhaps cruelty is the point. Perhaps they intentionally attack targets that are generally seen in a positive light, to prove to potential customers that morale is not an issue. Oh, you want me to DDOS a children's hospital? No problem.
- jachee 2y agoThus is the power of The Dark Side^W^W^W late-stage capitalism.
- DougN7 2y agoMaybe there is something damning on there that someone needs kept quiet for a while?
- textfiles 2y agoNo.
- ai_what 2y ago> Please don't post shallow dismissals https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sirtaj 2y agoThe user you're responding to is Jason Scott of TIA.
- ai_what 2y agoOh sorry, I guess that makes it a very detailed and well though-out response.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIt does, yes. The single word, from that source, on this topic, communicates all relevant information.
- youcantcook 2y ago[dead]
- textfiles 2y agoHackernews, it never disappoints.
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- somenameforme 2y agoDDOS attacks are dirt cheap and can be contracted from large professional sites offering customer support and the works. The largest one taken down had hundreds of thousands of users, and had carried out some 4 million attacks, for prices starting at $14.99/month. [1] So in other words, anybody can carry out a DDOS for basically no cost. So trying to analyze the purpose, let alone suspects, is probably not going to be fruitful. [1] - https://wccftech.com/865619-2/ https://wccftech.com/865619-2/
- sva_ 2y agoAnd they're curiously usually protected by Cloudflare.
- ziddoap 2y agoWhat makes that curious?
- jachee 2y agoCloudflare's "protection" is basically a racket. e.g. https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...
- hnbad 2y agoWhile I think there might be valid arguments to support that claim, that blog post hardly qualifies. The author runs a gambling site and while the way Cloudflare handled the situation (according to the author) could certainly be improved, they clearly were affecting other users by "tainting" shared IPs.
- jimmydorry 2y agoAnd yet if they ponied up the money, that issue of "tainting" shared IPs suddenly goes away. You can bet CloudFlare would graciously give the gambling site as much time as they need to bring their own IP (they went out of their way to link third party sellers of IPs with dubious provenance, after all).
- prmoustache 2y agoMy wild guess is most of them are ran by companies offering ddos mitigations services.
- codexon 2y agoIt's probably because someone saved incriminating evidence on it and they refused to take it down.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoIf it's on their own site, that wouldn't be a problem. IIRC, archive.org stops serving pages that later appear in a robots.txt file.
- codexon 2y agoIt could be on a website they don't control like twitter.
- swinglock 2y agoAre you upset? Can't do nothing about it? It even made a headline or even just a thread on a forum? That's reason enough for some. It could easily be a teenager with no better excuse than not having a fully developed brain and no better reason than liking to ruin things. Having seen how much that happens, I guess it's more likely than a conspiracy or a crime with any rationality behind it.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoThere are some very bad very shitty people about, just trying to make earth worse. Npm has been under pretty severe attack for ~6 weeks now. I forget who else. The scariest thing to me is what we might do in the face of persistent online attacks. If this stuff gets rolled up into western nations rolling back privacy & liberty? That's an theonion.com "bin laden plan to sit back and enjoy collapse" situation. Freak out & let cyber security paranoia reign & destroy free communication & connection.
- krapp 2y agoSeriously? People do this shit for fun. There used to be a program (LOIC) popular on 4chan used for DDoS attacks all the time, it's the origin of the "firin mah lazer" meme.
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- Uptrenda 2y agoIt's probably just some kid with a botnet that's showing off. You all give these people way too much credit, lmao.
- banish-m4 2y agoAl-shabaab, Boko Haram, China, Russia, DPRK, basement dweller, or third-party offensive hackers.