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The Rise of Packet Rate Attacks: When Core Routers Turn Evil (ovhcloud.com)
37 points by pjf on July 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Is there a worldwide equivalent to North American's NANOG, where the operations people can reach each other?[1]

[1] https://nanog.org/


"Like-minded orgs in our global community."

* https://nanog.org/resources/organizations-our-community/


> Indeed, a great part of these IPs are known as MikroTik Routers

I wonder why they decided not to include the exact percentage of the attack coming from Mikrotik devices or a list of the top 10 vendors and their share.

Like, did Mikrotik generate 50% of the high packet rate DDoS? Or was it like 10% coming from Microtik, 10% from major vendors and 80% of others/unknown?


Dumb guy question:

Did they search for MikroTik because it is easy to search for and has some history of vulnerabilities?


They did a Shodan-style search on the IPs they believed were involved in the attack and determined they were Mikrotik routers.




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