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How they manage to transfer 300TB of data while remaining anonymous is also astonishing.
by DUDOS 9mo ago
How they manage to transfer 300TB of data while remaining anonymous is also astonishing.
- eterm 9mo agoIt's hard to imagine anything but physical egress for that kind of volume.
- morsch 9mo ago50 free accounts continually streaming music rack up 20 TB in a month. So that would take about 1.5 years. Our you use 750 accounts and do it in a month. I would say it's weird they don't rate limit accounts but probably having a device play music pretty much all the time isn't even that rare of a use case.
- kefabean 9mo agoThat’s if they pretend to stream the music. If they are using throwaway free accounts I imagine they can download the DRM-stripped files much more quickly.
- monerozcash 9mo agoYou can probably just buy a thousand hacked spotify accounts for not much more than $1 a piece
- tacker2000 9mo agoI would guess this can be hidden under normal music streaming activity? But one would need lots of proxies!
- monerozcash 9mo agoRent a dedicated server, setup mullvad wireguard on it or whatever. Download stuff to said server using wireguard. Sure, you can also use Tor. The people engaged in copyright-related illegality generally don't.
- alex_duf 9mo agoBut then you need to rent a server without leaving any hint on your real identity. Which means going to some dodgy corners of the internet. I certainly wouldn't attempt
- monerozcash 9mo agoDepends on your threat model, you'd probably have to be scraping at a pretty large scale for anyone to try pursuing you through vpn providers.
- MiguelX413 9mo agoThis is unquestionably a large scale.
- Thaxll 9mo agoI mean 300TB is nothing for a streaming service, like it woudn't even show on a dashboard. They probably did that over weeks which is invisible.
- NelsonMinar 9mo agoPerhaps they leased a botnet. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-fro...