DDoS attacks almost always originate from hacked devices. The country/countries that the traffic originates from has never ever been an indicator of who's behind the attack. I've mapped botnet professionally for a decade. All this tells you is the geographical distribution of compromised devices 1/2
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Raphael Satter
New: The DDOS attack against X (formerly Twitter) is real, according to an industry source I spoke with.
As for the amount of rogue traffic emanating from Ukraine: “Insignificant.”
Biggest chunks of malicious traffic coming from US, Brazil, Vietnam, etc.
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
As for the amount of rogue traffic emanating from Ukraine: “Insignificant.”
Biggest chunks of malicious traffic coming from US, Brazil, Vietnam, etc.
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
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Then there's a crap tonne of botnets for hire complete with nice dashboards and click-and-drool style interfaces so even the minimally savvy can use them so long as they have the money.
The operators of these botnets don't care where the traffic comes from they just want VOLUME.
All indeed Facts ✅😉
Re Hacks
The bigger problem is vendor abandonment, most consumer tech gets MAYBE 18 months of updates and that's it, so if there's a vuln (and there usually IS) in an EOL router that's deployed in say 100k or 1M households it will never get fixed.
Straight up canon fodder.
I don't have hard data but generally it was the antivax MAGA "I hate long passwords I'll use my birth year" types who were most likely to click on a malware link and be used for sending spams or DDOS attacks.
when someone is a serial bullshitter you can just start at assuming it's bullshit and work back from there
Below is a tweet where Elon gave advice to an ER doctor on ventilators. 1/
People called him out on it so he had a short campaign about how milder ventilators were actually better.
It was totally “on brand” behavior for him.