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October 19, 2016

Spreading the DDoS Disease and Selling the Cure

This post was originally published on this siteEarlier this month a hacker released the source code for Mirai, a malware strain that was used to launch a historically large 620 Gbps denial-of-service attack against this site in September. That attack came in apparent retribution for a story here which directly preceded the arrest of two Israeli men for allegedly running an online attack for hire service called vDOS. Turns out, the site where the Mirai source code was leaked had some very interesting things in common with the place vDOS called home. The domain name where the Mirai source code was originally placed for download […]