Who's their biggest enemy at the moment
Paywalled sites?
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
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#22Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
Maybe it's a form of advertising certain capabilities and services.
IIUC, that's always a good theory for unexplained DDoS. Though, even if they have only profit motivations, I'm a little surprised when they don't seem to let ideology influence their selection of targets for demos.
For the sake of argument (maybe not true), let's say that all techies are aware of archive.org, and consider it beneficial, probably using it themselves.
Why don't they instead demo against a target that will be proof of capability, and one that someone won't pay them to do (no freebies), yet one that they perceive as bad or deserving in some way?
Probably improper to suggest "better" targets here, but I really wonder what's going on when some relative do-gooder gets attacked.
Similarly, ransomware attack on a children's hospital, of all places? Doesn't that get you uninvited to criminal mastermind dinner parties?
As Omar of "The Wire" told us, a man's gotta have a code.
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#23This is like an arsonist lighting an orphanage or library on fire. Why would you do something like that?
To sell your services as an arsonist. Being able to point to a big successful attack helps professional DDoSers sell their services.
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#24Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
DDOS attacks are dirt cheap and can be contracted from large professional sites offering customer support and the works. The largest one taken down had hundreds of thousands of users, and had carried out some 4 million attacks, for prices starting at $14.99/month. [1]
So in other words, anybody can carry out a DDOS for basically no cost. So trying to analyze the purpose, let alone suspects, is probably not going to be fruitful.
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#26Cui bono?
Publishers.
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#29Is there any way to know who is responsible?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe there is something damning on there that someone needs kept quiet for a while?
No.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals