[192487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spitballing IoT Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bzs@TheWorld.com)
Sat Oct 29 13:42:22 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:27:48 -0400
From: bzs@TheWorld.com
To: list@satchell.net
In-Reply-To: <0de550e8-5196-a80a-c311-e2d555731ad9@satchell.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, bzs@theworld.com
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On October 28, 2016 at 22:27 list@satchell.net (Stephen Satchell) wrote:
> On 10/28/2016 10:14 PM, bzs@TheWorld.com wrote:
> > Thus far the goal just seems to be mayhem.
>
> Thus far, the goal on the part of the botnet opearators is to make
> money. The goal of the CUSTOMERS of the botnet operators? Who knows?
You're speaking in general terms, right? We don't know much anything
about the perpetrators of these recent Krebs and Dyn attacks such as
whether there was any DDoS for hire involved.
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