Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes
arotrios@lemmy.world 3 days agoLooks 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.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 days ago
I just hope that FOSS doesn’t become a regular training ground for immoral capitalists to assault.
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.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But we do have information, and knowledge is power. Money is an intermediary.
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
Information here is public.
That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 days ago
Whew, good to know!