• Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    1 month ago

    That’s “just” 3800 times my home capacity. Is this really that easy to build a botnet?

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      1 month ago

      It’s terabits, not gigabits :)

      Symmetrical connections are not that common so pulling this much upload from infected machines seems impressive.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah. In developped countries you can expect at least 400Mbps thanks to fiber connections

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          1 month ago

          That’s still 2.5k fully saturated 400mbps connections. As far as I know this kind of approach wouldn’t work since you’d easily block them - you need craploads of bots all around the world for this to not be defeated by a smart firewall.

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            Often a multitude of high bandwidth servers are rented using stolen credit cards.

            (Source: I knew a guy that got busted by the FBI for operating one such services, he bought all the servers with stolen CCs)