[183878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDoS auto-mitigation best practices (for eyeball networks)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Muldoon via NANOG)
Sat Sep 19 17:15:32 2015
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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:15:23 -0400
To: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
From: Patrick Muldoon via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Patrick Muldoon <doon.bulk@inoc.net>
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> On Sep 19, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:
>=20
> How does he/she become target? How does IP address gets exposed?
Call of Duty.
No I am not kidding.
The majority of the DDOS attacks we see targeted at Residential =
customers, are because said Customer was running their mouth / being an =
A**Hole in Call of Duty, and they pissed off someone with access to a =
botnet, etc.. The other is people gambling for real money and they =
start to win, so someone else knocks they offline so they won't lose. =
As for how they get their IP, not really sure as I suck as those games, =
but I've heard it is pretty trivial to do so.=20
-Patrick=20
