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edgartaor on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

I'm curious. What kind of infrastructure you need to make this massive attack?

saidajigumi on Oct 21, 2016 [–]

via [1]: "Dyn says today's DDoS are in part being caused by Mirai botnet, which recently caused record-sized attack [2]"

[1] https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/789562789920636928

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botn...

tl;dr: a substantial part of this attack is a botnet of IoT devices.

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