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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by throwamay1241 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:08AM (#20904193)
- Advertising for potential DDoS service buyers

- Bragging rights

- Experimentation

Edit: Also potentially political or personal. Eg Posting something that offends 8chan||nation states etc.

There's quite often blackmail involved (Pay us $x BTC and we go away).

Cloudfront or similar should offer DDoS protection for free as a gesture of goodwill, it's good bragging rights for CF so everyone wins.

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by MayeulC on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:23AM (#20904316)
> Cloudfront or similar should offer DDoS protection for free as a gesture of goodwill, it's good bragging rights for CF so everyone wins.

Well, it is still a lot of wasted resources (bandwidth, energy, compute) for everyone involved (ISP, CF, attacker, defender, compromised machines), so I wouldn't be so quick to say that "everyone wins".

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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by throwamay1241 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:28PM (#20907385)
Consider it a 'cost of doing business'. Everyone gets DDoSed, I'm pretty sure that's one of CloudFronts primary service-based solutions
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Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’... by betaby on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:09PM (#20904654)
Wikipedia is behind Cloudflare at that moment.
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