Comment on Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attackparentComments−12700180804yIf you have that much computing power at your disposal, you might as well just mine cryptocurrency, right?−codsane4yNot necessarily as this is Mirai, a botnet of IoT devices. There’s probably not much else you could do with them.−remram4yYou can probably do both at the same time, as cryptocurrency uses a lot of CPU/GPU/memory/... but little bandwidth, and DDoS typically uses bandwidth but little CPU/GPU/memory/...
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If you have that much computing power at your disposal, you might as well just mine cryptocurrency, right?
Not necessarily as this is Mirai, a botnet of IoT devices. There’s probably not much else you could do with them.
You can probably do both at the same time, as cryptocurrency uses a lot of CPU/GPU/memory/... but little bandwidth, and DDoS typically uses bandwidth but little CPU/GPU/memory/...