what the heck?
> The Mirai court documents outline how Dalton, Jha, and White jumped into action in March as the attacks propagated online, working alongside the FBI and the security industry to identify vulnerable servers.
As in, scan every IP for port 11211?
Not only that, I suspect some ISPs now run 11211 honeypots to capture networks that source such attacks, so eventually the FBI would end up in common RBLs due to their abusive behavior.
In short, I suspect this entire article is bullshit. It is on Wired, after all.
(I'm sure NSA is, too, but obviously with different objectives.)
[0]:https://zmap.io/ [1]:https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan [2]:https://memcachedscan.shadowserver.org/
I almost literally LMAOed.
So, I also have an evolution way of DDoS, known as TCP/IP!
It sounds like a "The hacker known as 4 Chan" joke.
Honestly, that Wired magazine which has inspired the DotCom bubble, is long gone. Nowadays, it's basically a waste of time to read, except for occasional good articles.
Some of the articles have some pretty nice illustration at least.
With it being so reviled, how does it even survive? last resort airplane reading?
And yeah, the explanation of memcache as a type of DDoS is laughable, but it sounds like it was just used for amplification like I think DNS and NTP have been in the past.
Dear Lord... "going dark" like when people go to their banks website?
Additionally, an OIG report seems to suggest they did not attempt their usual avenue for acquiring access tools in order to get in, instead trying to force a legal precedent.
If I were in law enforcement, I'd certainly think twice about taking a position there. I'd be asking myself "what if I get drawn into Trump drama? Would that be good for my career?"
I don't mean to overstate things—I'm sure the FBI is mostly composed of talented professionals. But I'd be amazed if the recent drama had no effect on their ability to recruit.
They don't attract it. They arrest it. The benefit is that prospective employee can't refuse the offer.