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DDoS are crazy cheap now, it could be a random person for the lulz, or just as a test or demo (though I suspect Codeberg aren't a bit enough target to be impres

by rcxdude 11mo ago

DDoS are crazy cheap now, it could be a random person for the lulz, or just as a test or demo (though I suspect Codeberg aren't a bit enough target to be impressive there).

Sammi 11mo ago
Is it because the s in iot stands for security? I'm asking genuinely. Where are these requests coming from?
- gilrain 11mo ago
  Search for “residential proxy”.
  - Sammi 11mo ago
    This seems like a synonym for botnet.
    - bayindirh 11mo ago
      Also a good synonym for "anonymized and deceiving army of AI crawlers circumventing controls for their own benefit".
- rcxdude 11mo ago
  I would put it down to 4 things: - the internet's a lot bigger nowadays - there are a lot of crappily secured iot devices - the average household internet connection has gotten a lot faster, especially on upload bandwidth. - there's a pile of amplification techniques which can multiply the bandwidth of an attack by using poorly-configured services.
exceptione 11mo ago
What is cheap and what are the risks of getting caught? I can understand that for a 15 yo it might be for the lulz, but I am having a hard time to imagine that this would give street creds, and why be persistent about it. AI-bots would make more sense, but these can be dealt with.