China is likely the culprit behind these attacks. The sophistication of this DDoS attack could only have been carried out by state actors. China is the nearest neighbor with a long, proven track record of continued, elaborate hacks on the US and other countries.
North Korea has no prior record of anything near this advanced, so I am skeptical. Also, since they country does not have internet access, it is unlikely they have enough expertise among their population to recruit from to build a hacking team.
I find it pretty hilarious that people (including the newspapers) always think this kind of stuff is the work of advanced government hackers working for some cyber attack force. There's is nothing advanced about a DDoS attack that brings down a website. It's ridiculously easy to get a botnet and send millions of computers at a website until the server crashes. Even more "advanced" stuff is really just the equivalent of running something like AD on all the compromised machines. An actually advanced blackhat hacker wouldn't ever let you know that you were being hacked-not until the day that all your servers go down because they'd been compromised without you knowing for months and months already. These silly DDoS attacks are the work of bored script kiddies in IRC channels and yes, possibly the crap government of North Korea. But I find it hilarious that anybody would think that Chinese intelligence agencies care about bringing down some website. You guys do realize that websites like the Treasury's get almost no traffic normally, so their servers are just not meant to handle any semblence of traffic. Any moron could take it down with a bot-net. Even a 13 year old kid.
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China is likely the culprit behind these attacks. The sophistication of this DDoS attack could only have been carried out by state actors. China is the nearest neighbor with a long, proven track record of continued, elaborate hacks on the US and other countries.
North Korea has no prior record of anything near this advanced, so I am skeptical. Also, since they country does not have internet access, it is unlikely they have enough expertise among their population to recruit from to build a hacking team.
glad you figured it out.
My intelligence gathered from C&C Generals gives evidence to back up these claims
I find it pretty hilarious that people (including the newspapers) always think this kind of stuff is the work of advanced government hackers working for some cyber attack force. There's is nothing advanced about a DDoS attack that brings down a website. It's ridiculously easy to get a botnet and send millions of computers at a website until the server crashes. Even more "advanced" stuff is really just the equivalent of running something like AD on all the compromised machines.
An actually advanced blackhat hacker wouldn't ever let you know that you were being hacked-not until the day that all your servers go down because they'd been compromised without you knowing for months and months already. These silly DDoS attacks are the work of bored script kiddies in IRC channels and yes, possibly the crap government of North Korea. But I find it hilarious that anybody would think that Chinese intelligence agencies care about bringing down some website.
You guys do realize that websites like the Treasury's get almost no traffic normally, so their servers are just not meant to handle any semblence of traffic. Any moron could take it down with a bot-net. Even a 13 year old kid.
'proven' eh, yeah just like the WMD in iraq, who can be fired in 30 minutes, all proven alright..