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You're a little late - the Mirai botnet (Larget botnet at the time it became widely known) is exactly that. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...
That story - Wow! Did anything ever happen to the author? Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824 Supposed Reddit comment from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5nqq3c/serious_p...
Re: Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS
#111Their last post is Jul 17, but there's signature and even if there was, how would we ever know.