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A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims

A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled.  Benjamin Brundage had a few tricks to help solve the mystery.

Wall Street Journal Robert McMillan

Discussion

  • @draken1721 @draken1721 on x
    @WSJ college kid with a meme > billion dollar security apparatus
  • @philipsnyder Philip Snyder on x
    A routine all you can eat sushi lock in session and @deobfuscately casually mentions he got featured in an article... >Its a full feature expo in WSJ >used cat memes to socially engineer >reverse engineered their backdooor >pivoted that into mapping ~2M infected res proxy [image]
  • r/technology r on reddit
    The College Student—and His Cat Meme—Who Hunted the World's Biggest Cyberweapon