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Re:Ask HN: Who is behind the Linode DDOS attacks? by gexos on Monday December 28, 2015 @07:49AM (#10800878)
As for the reason, it's normally trying to get money out of them, or just to take a website offline for a while (e.g. the DDoS is from a competitor).

Exactly!

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