[192511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spitballing IoT Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bzs@TheWorld.com)
Sun Oct 30 16:00:06 2016
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:59:46 -0400
From: bzs@TheWorld.com
To: esr@thyrsus.com
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Is this report reliable=3F I don't know off-hand:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3134721/security/amateurs-were-behin=
d-the-dyn-inc-ddos-attack-report-says.html
or:
http://tinyurl.com/zb9mpy5
Amateurs were behind the Dyn Inc. DDoS attack, report says
Flashpoint says that despite speculation, nothing they=E2=80=99ve see=
n
points to political motivation or extortion
Here is Flashpoint's actual report link:
https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/action-analysis-mirai-botnet-attacks=
-dyn/
or
http://tinyurl.com/hrhewxg
"...In its investigation of Dyn DDoS attacks, Flashpoint discovered
that the infrastructure used in the attack also targeted a
well-known video game company. While there does not appear to have
been any disruption of service, the targeting of a video game
company is less indicative of hacktivists, state-actors, or social
justice communities, and aligns more with the hackers that frequent
online hacking forums. These hackers exist in their own tier,
sometimes called =E2=80=9Cscript kiddies,=E2=80=9D and are separate a=
nd distinct
from hacktivists, organized crime, state-actors, and terrorist
groups. They can be motivated by financial gain, but just as often
will execute attacks such as these to show off, or to cause
disruption and chaos for sport..."
"...Flashpoint assesses with moderate confidence that these attacks
were not financially or politically motivated..."
P.S. not sure why I include tinyurls other than long URLs tend to get
messed up in some MUAs and on rare occasion one has to retype one in
and tinyurls are tiny.
--=20
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