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I think this is a plausible theory of the attack - (first seen in from npr report on incident):

NANOG 68 BackConnects Suspicious BGP Hijacks is shown 4ish days ago. Last talk of the night, discusses BGP hijacking shenanigans and krebs; touches on MO of possible attacker. Speaker is Director at Dyn. Attack in retaliation.

So far the targets have been organisations that have responded to or made allegations of corrupt DDoS business.

Please don't buy into all this cyberwar bullshit, this may just be a well resourced (its really not that hard to pop boxes with default passwords.....) attacker doing criminal response to commentary.

[ryanlol]

This is likely, Backconnect hosted Mirai in the past right before attacks on Krebs. (however not during them.)

There's also no small amounts of publicly available evidence that Backconnect used insider information provided by their CEO (ex Staminus employee) to compromise Staminus network earlier this year by hijacking a management range of theirs.