New research on the source of Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn indicates that script kiddies are likely responsible, rather than a politically motivated actor. Researchers at Flashpoint dismissed numerous claims of responsibility that separately linked the attack to the Russian government, WikiLeaks or the New World Hackers group.
Instead, the threat intelligence company said with “moderate confidence” that the attacks are linked to the Hackforums community. Hackforums is an English-speaking hacking forum and the place where the source code for the Mirai malware was publicly released by a hacker known as Anna-Senpai.
