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		hn_user2 on Dec 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Colla... Yeah I caught that too. I interpreted the withdrawn to mean that they stopped advertising any routes for their ip block via BGP. Which could be a pulled plug or a DDOS. I think most likely a DDOS by a random party, but doesn't sound like much actual evidence to any specifics.

yourad_io on Dec 22, 2014 [–]

> I think most likely a DDOS by a random part

Agreed, but I would think a DDOS would be observable from the neighbouring (and even not-so-neighbouring) networks/systems.

Reporting an attack based on Dyn saying "under duress/consistent with DDOS" is just shitty, shitty journalism.

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