Re:Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
by alphager on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:57PM
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Name a few.
Re:Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
by TylerE on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:39PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
https://medium.com/@aleksamajkic/fake-sms-how-deep-does-the-...
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/malicious-packag...
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/04/22/phd-students-willful...
I could go on but I trust this is a sufficient number of examples.
Re:Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
by pona-a on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:46AM
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Only two of these were actual malicious commits. Two others were malware inserted into the repositories (if Twitter could be thought of as a meta-repo), which is bad but not on the same scale.
Plenty of stories of fairly major projects having evil commits snuck in that remain for months.