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Re:Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes by syspec on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:04AM (#24808011)
> In March 2014, malicious javascript injected into thousands of websites via a network man-in-the-middle attack caused hundreds of thousands of browsers to flood YouTube with requests, peaking at 2.7 Mrps (millions of requests per second).

What would be the reason for leveraging this kind of attack against a target like YouTube? It seems like an odd target

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Re:Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes by menscher on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:58AM (#24810909)
DDoS is sometimes used as a form of censorship -- in this case the attack targeted specific videos.
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Re:Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes by dgellow on Saturday October 17, 2020 @06:30AM (#24809007)
Advertising stunts from people selling DDoS services?
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