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by croes 84 days ago
Relevant because Cloudflare manipulated the DNS using a false reasoning
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1.1.1.2 blocks malware, and archive.today performs DDOS. Where's the false reasoning?
It‘s not a C&C/Botnet
It is C&C -- it instructs their site visitors to DOS a specific site.
By this logic, all malicious JavaScript (obvious example is cryptominers I guess, assuming no JS sandbox escape) is C&C, yeah? As it "instructs site visitors" to do something harmful locally?
A C&C controls a botnet, where is the botnet?
The browsers of their site visitors.
If you need to be on the site it’s not a botnet and there is no C&C server coordinating the attack. It‘s just the JS on the site that makes the attack.