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Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

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Re: Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

#3
Remember that Cloudflare does a MITM on every connection to every website they front.

CF not only protects them... they have real time intelligence on who is getting attacked, who is paying for it, and all the parameters of the attack (type, volume, duration, etc).

What would your sales team give for leads this hot?

Re: Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

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post #3

Remember that Cloudflare does a MITM on every connection to every website they front. CF not only protects them... they have real time intelligence on who is getting attacked, who is paying for it, and all the parameters of the attack (type, volume, duration, etc). What would your sales team give for leads this hot?

>they have real time intelligence on [...] who is paying for it,

This is credible as "amazon has real time intelligence on all their e-commerce competitors because they operate AWS".

Re: Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

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post #3

Remember that Cloudflare does a MITM on every connection to every website they front. CF not only protects them... they have real time intelligence on who is getting attacked, who is paying for it, and all the parameters of the attack (type, volume, duration, etc). What would your sales team give for leads this hot?

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Re: Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

#10

The post seems skip explanation of what Cloudflare's involvement is?

read it. cloudflare hosts the attackers.

>cloudflare hosts the attackers.

No, they provide DDoS protection, but the actual servers are likely hosted on some random VPS somewhere.

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