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Re:Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack by 1270018080 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @05:40PM (#29213803)
If you have that much computing power at your disposal, you might as well just mine cryptocurrency, right?
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Re:Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack by codsane on Saturday November 13, 2021 @06:36PM (#29214139)
Not necessarily as this is Mirai, a botnet of IoT devices. There’s probably not much else you could do with them.
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Re:Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack by remram on Sunday November 14, 2021 @04:14PM (#29220770)
You can probably do both at the same time, as cryptocurrency uses a lot of CPU/GPU/memory/... but little bandwidth, and DDoS typically uses bandwidth but little CPU/GPU/memory/...
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