IoT Botnet forces shutdown of Krebs on Security.

1. 2016-09-30 at 4:41 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Somewhere last week Brian Krebs reported that do to a massive DDoS attack clocking in at 660Gbps(Lel) his host Akamai decided to terminate service to him because they were like: Yeah we don't want this.
   
   I am pretty sure that somewhere way, way off in the distance i heard a champagne cork pop as Brian Krebs' research was into botnets especially of the DDoS capable variety. The interesting thing about this story is that the botnet consisted mainly of internet connected cameras and as such it was a venerable 'Botnet of Things'.
   
   See the full article below.
   
   https://motherboard.vice.com/read/15...et-brian-krebs
2. 2016-09-30 at 4:50 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Also. Lmao, the vulnerability in the IoT cameras was laughable as well. Apparently you could get access by typing in a username with too many characters. Then they planted Lizkebab on the things. Lol, the more i read about it the more it sounds like a skid operation. But, it's not unheard of for sophisticated threat actors to use simple and available means to accomplish a goal when they are able too. I mean, 660Gbps for a reasonably simple setup seems like a decent trade off for me.
3. 2016-09-30 at 5:46 PM UTC

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   SBTlauien African Astronaut
   So Krebs is gone for good?
4. 2016-09-30 at 6:15 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   So Krebs is gone for good?

   
   Not sure tbh, i think he is looking for a new host.
5. 2016-09-30 at 7:39 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   site was back up after the attack, he's probably just moving it
   
   a french ISP got hit too, something like 1tb/sec (!!!)
6. 2016-09-30 at 8:07 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   a french ISP got hit too, something like 1tb/sec (!!!)

   
   Yeah so i read, that's insane.
7. 2016-10-02 at 6:08 PM UTC

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   Merlin Houston

   site was back up after the attack, he's probably just moving it

   
   I read somewhere google was hosting it for him
8. 2016-10-02 at 6:47 PM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   More humorous to me is that Akamai dropped him on it. Their whole business model is supposed to be dealing with exactly this kind of situation.
9. 2016-10-02 at 7:16 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support

   More humorous to me is that Akamai dropped him on it. Their whole business model is supposed to be dealing with exactly this kind of situation.

   
   I thought they offered some provisional protection, nothing concrete.