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		subie on Oct 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack The attacker is still spending resources giving out instructions to the bot army. Unless they are using a setup like @tomschlick mentioned or some P2P thing.

pixl97 on Oct 26, 2016 [–]

Sending out a message to 1 million compromised devices takes almost nothing. Also, if you've compromised 1 million devices, chances are you also compromised a linux server on a fast host for command and control.

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