A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
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A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P
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#2This seems to lack the full story, despite the headline.. Krebs' coverage is more in-depth (39 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976825
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#3Man, I feel so out of depth with cybersecurity news.
Why does i2p (per the article) expect state sponsored attacks every February? Where are those forming from, what does the regularity achieve?
How come the operators of giant (I’m assuming illegal) botnets are available to voice their train of thought in discord?
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#4From the main article, I2P has 55,000 computers, the botnet tried to add 700,000 infected routers to I2P to use it as a backup command-and-control system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976825
This, predictably, broke I2P.
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#5Man, I feel so out of depth with cybersecurity news. Why does i2p (per the article) expect state sponsored attacks every February? Where are those forming from, what does the regularity achieve? How come the operators of giant (I’m assuming illegal) botnets are available to voice their train of thought in discord?
Many state bodies involved in adversarial action have dedicated budgets for offensive cyber-warfare, credential thefts, supply chain compromises and disinformation. If they haven't used all of their budget by the end of the budget period, they'll be allocated a smaller budget for the next budget period.
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#6Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?
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#7Man, I feel so out of depth with cybersecurity news. Why does i2p (per the article) expect state sponsored attacks every February? Where are those forming from, what does the regularity achieve? How come the operators of giant (I’m assuming illegal) botnets are available to voice their train of thought in discord?
Many state bodies involved in adversarial action have dedicated budgets for offensive cyber-warfare, credential thefts, supply chain compromises and disinformation. If they haven't used all of their budget by the end of the budget period, they'll be allocated a smaller budget for the next budget period.
Oh ffs. Whenever I think my opinion on the state of the world can’t get any lower, things somehow manage to get dumber.
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#8Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?
botnet owners dying typically come forwards and say they are trying to run a botnet, so there may be some difficulty there.
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#9Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?
botnet owners don't typically come forwards and say they are trying to run a botnet, so there may be some difficulty in detecting them there.
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#10Why does Discord allow a server for a botnet owner?
Discord has a lot of terrible servers. This is one of the reasons they were not trusted when they came out and wanted to do identity verification. They already have a lot of information yet fail to do meaningful enforcement at scale.