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Qrator Labs Blog
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Qrator Labs Blog is the company blog at blog.qrator.net, writing about security. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Mēris botnet, climbing to the record”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Qrator Labs posts reporting on DDoS activity, mainly the Mēris botnet and its record-setting 21.8M RPS attack. The comments only cite or link the reports, with no comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Mēris botnet, climbing to the record3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Original link: https://blog.qrator.net/en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-reco...
Comment linking /en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-record_142/
on “Mēris botnet, climbing to the record”Submitted Mēris botnet, climbing to the record as a story · 91 points
HN discussionBased on the number of times I've seen these posted about they seem quite frequent[0]. If I'm being honest, the entire BGP system seems to be very fragile with a massive blast radius. I get that it's super 'core' so it's hard to fix, and that it comes from a time when the Internet was more 'cooperative' (in the protocol sense of the word) but are there any attempts at a successor or is it impossible to do so fundame…
Comment linking /en/q3-2022-ddos-attacks-and-bgp-incidents_158/
on “Route leak incident on January 22, 2026”Submitted National Internet Segment Reliability Research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQrator Labs report: https://blog.qrator.net/en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-reco...
Comment linking /en/meris-botnet-climbing-to-the-record_142/
on “New Mēris botnet breaks DDoS record with 21.8M RPS attack”Submitted Almost 8M BGP route leaks and more than 7M BGP hijacks in Q1 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion