How Google Took on Mirai, Krebs OnSecurity
Summary: In the third week of September 2016, KrebsOnSecurity was knocked offline by wave after wave of large denial-of-service attacks and stayed down for three days before resurfacing under Google's Project Shield. Google security engineer Damian Menscher said his team decided within about an hour to help, but admitting the site took longer because it was down and its DNS settings were locked to thwart domain hijacking, and once it came back online the attacks resumed within 14 minutes.
What you should know: The site was only reachable again for 14 minutes before the botnet resumed, and Google's own team weighed whether the botnet could take down google.com and cost it all of its revenue before concluding it had nothing to lose.
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