Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes

Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like it was a practice run. It’s relatively easy to take out webservers with a standard DDOS attack. This is considerably more sophisticated, and I think they were testing it on gaming networks in prep for a larger attack on financial and/or government IT infrastructure.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just hope that FOSS doesn’t become a regular training ground for immoral capitalists to assault.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.

      If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)

      For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.

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      • Angelusz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But we do have information, and knowledge is power. Money is an intermediary.

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      • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Whew, good to know!

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• Vent@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol, and what would the ransom be for taking down someone’s money-burning hobby project?

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, there was an article I read elsewhere on Lemmy that said that FOSS is an enemy of capitalism by being a cheaper competitor, so capitalist dogs may try to attack FOSS developers’ resources and willpower to keep going so they can funnel all of us users over to their paid products.

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  • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No ransom. This might be someone’s hobby project but it is dangerous, or will be, to the handful of dweeby, fake-ripped broligarchs that want to control ALL of our conversations.

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    • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For c example, some conspiracy theories say that FOSS maintainers being trash talked and having their families threatened online might be state actors trying to get them to give up the project so that someone else can continue it and insert vulnerabilities.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The lulz

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