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Russia's Yandex says it repelled biggest DDoS attack in history

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Post by rzhikharevich » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 2:47 PM UTC

Russia's Yandex says it repelled biggest DDoS attack in history
reuters.com

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Post by jszymborski » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

So what is the motivation behind DDoS attacks like this? Are they issuing ransoms?

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Post by seppoonbi » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:35 PM UTC

So this is probably why my yandex mail did not work yesterday at all. Error message gave no information.

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Post by rzhikharevich » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 11:14 AM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #2

So what is the motivation behind DDoS attacks like this? Are they issuing ransoms?

Probably trying to demonstrate the power of some botnet to advertise it.

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