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The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it. A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddi
by just_some_user 2mo ago
The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it.
A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive.
So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?
- iwontberude 2mo agothose script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them
- InTheArena 2mo agoWhat do they benefit from taking down any government, NGO or civic work program? American systems, as well as larger European systems are constantly attacked. I've seen the same traffic. Fire walling off China, North Korea and smaller eastern European countries is a must if you ever plan to expose any internet exposed services.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo agoReally, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?
- motbus3 2mo agoThat is much less effective than every other manner they tested on the past few years such as shadow fleets, ghost satellites etc. Up to the moment it has not been the operation adopted which would make it weird. On who would do it then, anyone who benefits from instability. From corporations trying to sell flocked uped sytems, politicians, etc. There is one south american country who was attacked exactly this way before their head of the government was kidnapped.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo agoYou don't understand Kremlin's mentality. Any even little nasty thing they can do to the West makes them giggle like Doctor Evil. "Oh, a NATO country's government infra was not protected from DDoS? Let's have fun, haha!" You are dealing with story book villains. I know, this sounds so ridiculous it's hard to believe someone can actually be like this. But then the reality check hits.
- throwaway742 2mo agoThey aren't story book villains. I think this says a lot about your mentality.
- throwuxiytayq 2mo agoStory book villains usually have better justification for their evil acts than the Russian government.
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- inigyou 2mo agoIs Israel supplying drones to Ukraine? Good on them.
- roflmaostc 2mo agois there actually any source those attacks are really done by "script kiddies"? More likely this more politically motivated and backed up by money and more capable groups
- just_some_user 2mo agoYes, thats what I meant
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoi don't think script kiddies are a thing anymore. AI kiddies, more likely. in some ways script kiddies weren't a thing for a decade or more as the attack surface got considerably harder to penetrate, and the model changed for pay-to-play attacks. AI simply caused the bottom of that market to fall further, and effectiveness to increase.
- cantalopes 2mo agoImo russia most likely
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoalmost certainly. they're hitting all NATO governments, and Norway is a direct competitor in the arctic.
- tuatoru 2mo agoThe UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.
- Crunchified 2mo ago"vast stores of electricity"?
- QuantumNomad_ 2mo agoElectricity production in Norway is predominantly hydroelectric. When it rains dams fill up. The water is drained into shafts with turbines, and electricity is generated. However, even though we are big on hydroelectricity percentage wise I’m not sure it’s all that vast an amount of electricity on a global scale. We are a pretty small country after all. According to Wikipedia, the Norwegian electricity sector had 40.26 GW installed capacity as of 2021 and was producing 157.113 TWh in the same year. [1] Great Britain had 74.8 GW installed capacity in 2023 and was producing 292.7 TWh in 2023. [2] France was producing 537.7 TWh in 2020. [3] Germany was producing 488.5 TWh in 2024. [4] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_in_Great_Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_in_Great_Britain [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
- Crunchified 2mo agoIt stored energy. It's not stored electricity.
- Retr0id 2mo agoDDoS tends to be monetised as DDoS-as-a-service. Taking down "significant" services is good advertising. Either that, or they plan to extort the Norwegian government.
- just_some_user 2mo agoBut for such a "proof of power" a short attack which takes the service down once is enough, long attacks are not so common and actually require some work from the attacker
- giwook 2mo agoProbably a country that lost to Norway in the World Cup.
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- esseph 2mo agoIt hasn't been majorly like that in twenty years. Botnets are services now, a business. They gain customers by their effectiveness and resilience. For $$50-100 you can deny service to a lot of big sites and services.
- sixtyj 2mo agoIt is not expensive, unfortunately :( Flare + BleepingComputer 2026, Kaspersky, StormWall, and others show that the DDoS-as-a-service market is highly commoditized and prices are extremely low: A short test / basic attack on a website: $5–25. Daily attack on a poorly protected target: around $100/day. A more robust or well-protected target: $200–500 per day. Monthly subscription to booter/stresser services: often $15–40 (sometimes even less); premium packages cost hundreds of dollars. Larger or longer-term campaigns or infrastructure: thousands of dollars. On the governmental level these money are almost nothing if you want to hurt someone else…
- red-iron-pine 2mo ago> So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government? do we really need to ask? clearly it's the Danes