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Re: [LUG] Twitter DDoS

 

Samuel Tarling wrote:
> 
> What gets me about this is the whole "why" factor. What could they
> gain?

Usually it is blackmail.

Pay me X or I'll take your site down.

Sometimes it is bored schoolkids, someone with a grudge, or someone with
a political motive.

I don't see why you say "form such a group", this is usually one or two
individuals using bot nets.

We've had effective DDoS attacks by accident, where botnet controllers
were trying to spam, or trying to do pay per click fraud, but one of our
boxes got caught in the action and the effect was more than the would be
spammer or scammer expected. Usually these types are quite small traffic
wise and hurt because of issues surrounding open connections etc, you
can just dump the packets at the router for those types.

But there are big botnets out there, and DDoS in the gigabit range have
been seen on occasion.

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