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Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by dylan604 »

supportengineer wrote: post #16

I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.

Because every single nation would have to sign on to it allowing said agency to ignore sovereignty of each nation to come in and do their policing.

You'd also need to have every country not actively involved in these types of schemes yet we know some governments are directly benefiting from the scams/theft their citizens are perpetrating.

You'd also need to have every country think the things you want to police against are wrong. Again, we know that's just not true.

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by ddtaylor »

haunter wrote: post #98

This is what I don't get >The Aisuru DDoS botnet operates as a DDoS-for-hire service with restricted clientele; operators have reportedly implemented preventive measures to avoid attacking governmental, law enforcement, military, and other national security properties. Most observed Aisuru attacks to date appear to be related to online gaming. https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/asert-threat-summary-ais... So why? Li…

> So why? Like why would someone pay to take a game down? I see this all over reddit with different games but I just don't get the point. What's the benefit of taking down an online game for a couple of hours.

Most of the time crime groups are running extortion campaigns, amplification campaigns, etc. For example, if a competitor can benefit from them being down you may be able to sell that. Eventually we will probably see the invention of crowd-funded randsomware, where everyone must submit one verification can of crypto to unlock the hacked game servers.

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by victorbjorklund »

supportengineer wrote: post #16

I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.

do you really think for example America would allow say Chinese prosecutors to arrest Americans on American soil and take them abroad to sentence them in a court that America has no influence over and then throw them in a prison which America doesn’t control?

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by [deleted] »

dijit wrote: post #26
m00x wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you even enforce this if the offending country doesn't agree?

Limit their upstream connection to the rest of the internet via allied countries. Literally the same as economic sanctions. The internet is a network of peers “trading” bits and bytes after all.

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Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by sidewndr46 »

shoddydoordesk wrote: post #18

> it suddenly ballooned in size in April 2025 after its operators breached a TotoLink router firmware update server and infected approximately 100,000 devices This is scary. Everyone lauds open source projects like OpenWRT but... who is watching their servers? I imagine you can't run an army of security people on donations and a shoestring budget. Does OpenWRT use digital signing to mitigate this?

The post is nothing more than "but what about security" meant to deflect away from the discussion at hand and towards OpenWRT

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

haunter wrote: post #98

This is what I don't get >The Aisuru DDoS botnet operates as a DDoS-for-hire service with restricted clientele; operators have reportedly implemented preventive measures to avoid attacking governmental, law enforcement, military, and other national security properties. Most observed Aisuru attacks to date appear to be related to online gaming. https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/asert-threat-summary-ais... So why? Li…

Extortion. You got a nice little game server there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.

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Post by mkoubaa »

supportengineer wrote: post #16

I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.

Those exist but they might have a different idea of what makes an actor bad than you and I. Just look at what happened to Julian Assange.

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by mkoubaa »

miohtama wrote: post #113
supportengineer wrote: post #16

I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.

It's national interest of China and Russia to see the West to fail. Why would they co-operate? They are willing to murder people, West and their own, so "law" enforcement means a bit different in international context.

It is absolutely not in China's interest to see the West fail. This is propaganda

Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

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Post by Aachen »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #124
supportengineer wrote: post #16

I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.

do you really think for example America would allow say Chinese prosecutors to arrest Americans on American soil and take them abroad to sentence them in a court that America has no influence over and then throw them in a prison which America doesn’t control?

When the deed is illegal in both places, they can be tried under either jurisdiction and convicted instead of continuing to roam free and fuck up the open web for everyone else. Yes I do think we'd want that

Borders currently get in the way but we needn't have law enforcement on foreign soil to solve that. Exchanging information and reliably acting upon it could be all these agencies need to do in their respective countries. When this proves effective aside from crime states that have no interest in upholding even their own laws (since dual illegality would probably be a prerequisite for any of this), they may eventually find themselves increasingly cut off and distrusted until they, too, cooperate or self-isolate like NK

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