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

> international law enforcement agency

You mean Team America, World Police?

Besides the fact that not much happens in the international public sector, law enforcement is more about deterrence than prevention. Criminals aren't deterred by law enforcement, so the bad actors never stop. Human nature's a bitch.

If they did focus on prevention instead, most of this could be... prevented. Create a treaty that mandates how critical infrastructure technology is created/sold. Consumer routers will stop being shit at security, and home devices are slowed-down in upstream spamming. That's a good chunk of the denial-of-service market gone, with no need to police the world.

...but the criminals are smart and intentionally avoid attacking the powerful, so nobody cares. Same reason organized crime still exists. It's poor people caught up in gang violence and crime, not rich people, so it persists.

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

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Yes. Only way is to secure your IoT devices/routers/cameras/etc.

Through personal responsibility? That is not scalable; look at how many compromised devices there are. We need a better solution as an industry.

"a better solution as an industry" = "corporate authoritarianism"

I'd rather these attacks continue, than they not exist at all, because the latter is only possible in a world without any freedom.

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

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IoT is just wave after wave of unsecure devices. There's gotta be a better way.

I suppose ISPs could be more restrictive about which routers they allow their customers to use, but I'm not sure I'm a fan of further lockdown in that department.

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

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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?

esports gambling is big business

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

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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?

esports gambling and winning tournaments is big business.

> During the Fortnite Championship Series finals, a pair of pro players may have utilized denial of service attacks to disadvantage contesters [1]

[1] https://fortnitetracker.com/article/1087/ddos-scandal-from-c...

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

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What is even more interesting why attack Azure? It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft, so what's the rationale?

> It's not possible to extort anything from Microsoft lul wut? https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-ballroom-d... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-mill...

It's the exact opposite of extortion. They're thrilled to spend money to buy political favor whenever possible. It's not even a drop in the bucket.

"Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon among big donors to Biden’s inauguration"

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-mi...

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

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For some scale, Final Fantasy XIV makes about $65 million in annual revenue (and decreasing).

According to their latest financial earnings on page 11 of https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/25q4slides... they made 55.5 billion yen or about $357 million. So quite a bit more revenue than $65 million

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

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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 again…

How did we (USA) so it with copyright law?

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

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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.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, this is literally what keeps happening to me. I run a couple private MMO servers, I regularly get hit with DDoS attacks and clowns like this guy DMing me to demand money to stop attacking my servers:

https://abyss.diath.net/img/20251118055501688.png

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

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According to their latest financial earnings on page 11 of https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/25q4slides... they made 55.5 billion yen or about $357 million. So quite a bit more revenue than $65 million

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That's correct! You've correctly interpreted the document -- they had 324.5 B yen total sales. FF14 is on page 11, made 55.5B yen sales. and grew 8B yen yoy.
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