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Not necessarily. It could be one for loop running on tens of thousands of compromised IoT devices, with the only thing distributed being the command that starts
by lolinder 1y ago
Not necessarily. It could be one for loop running on tens of thousands of compromised IoT devices, with the only thing distributed being the command that starts the loops.
- saulpw 1y agoSounds like you've never managed tens of thousands of nodes in a distributed system. It's not trivial.
- jjtheblunt 1y ago(elixir / otp says "hold my beer")
- luckylion 1y agoWhat would making a C&C server for a botnet hard? It's not like you need to carefully coordinate all those clients to hit precise timings, you just tell them who to target and let them rip, don't you?
- PcChip 1y agoNothing. I did it with IRC servers in the late 90s when I was a dumb kid in high school
- lolinder 1y agoCoordinating a botnet to launch a DDoS is commodity software at this point. You could argue that the engineering that went into the coordination software is good, which may or may not be true, but simply launching a botnet is well within the capabilities of a script kiddie and not something that shows sophistication on the part of the attacker.