John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app

Frank Bulk frnkblk at iname.com
Tue Dec 15 22:36:21 UTC 2015


Good stuff from Duane here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20151215_verisign_perspective_on_recent_root_s
erver_attacks/

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Tony Finch
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 4:27 AM
To: Jim Shankland <nanog at shankland.org>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from
smartphone botnet on popular app

Jim Shankland <nanog at shankland.org> wrote:

> Also, this jumped out at me:
>
> "The problem with the recent attack is that the originating IP addresses
were
> evenly distributed within the IPV4 universe," McAfee says. "This is
virtually
> impossible using spoofing."
>
> Am I missing something, or is an even distribution of originating IP
addresses
> virtually impossible *without* using spoofing?

You are correct and McAfee is confused.

http://root-servers.org/news/events-of-20151130.txt

   DNS root name servers that use IP anycast observed this
   traffic at a significant number of anycast sites.

This implies that the botnet was widely distributed.

   The source addresses of these particular queries appear to be
   randomized and distributed throughout the IPv4 address space.

This says the attackers also used spoofing.

Tony.
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