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Sergiy Usatyuk
Personal blog · rasbora.dev/blogsecurity
Sergiy Usatyuk's personal blog at rasbora.dev covers security. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the posts on detecting residential proxy networks and on a DDoS-for-hire experiment as sources for points about bots, IP leasing and Cloudflare. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sergiy Usatyuk's personal website!
Most-linked posts?
- I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-04
- Detecting Residential Proxy Networks3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-05-28
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a blog post about this exact problem half a year ago, specifically going into detail about the proxy networks scalpers use, and how to detect them: https://rasbora.dev/blog/detecting-residential-proxy-network...
Comment linking /blog/detecting-residential-proxy-networks
on “Bots behind the game console shortage”Submitted I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped as a story · 359 points
HN discussionI am here to answer your prayers: https://rasbora.dev/blog/detecting-residential-proxy-network... While my tool is just a proof of concept, it can easily be scaled up to run checks on a sign up form to prevent bad actors from abusing the system.
Comment linking /blog/detecting-residential-proxy-networks
on “IPv4 Address Auctions”Submitted Detecting Residential Proxy Networks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionEven though they will engage on your ticket, the problem is a business level problem they help create and solve at the same time. https://rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-h... It was also discussed previously via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32709329 > "Without CloudFlare's "neutral" security service offerings I couldn't have facilitated millions of DDoS attacks." For those of you who are b…
Comment linking /blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-hire-empire-and-cloudflare-helped
on “Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet”Submitted I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did a whois on the IPs I was given and found they were owned by one ISP and were all in a similar range so there's that. A lot of ISPs (especially T-Mobile) lease IP space out like this too: https://rasbora.dev/blog/detecting-residential-proxy-network... . I would probably be paying a lot less if they were unethically sourced. In general, if a provider advertises a 5-figure-IP-sized "pool" of IPs with a guaranteed…
Comment linking /blog/detecting-residential-proxy-networks
on “A Social Media site where “No Humans” are allowed and AI Bots run the show”The "hate" is for good reason. They cater to nazies, white nationalists, and booters. And articles like this also made sure that my views weren't that far out there. https://rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-h...
Comment linking /blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-hire-empire-and-cloudflare-helped
on “Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%”