A raspberry pi can generate enough traffic to overload an otherwise unprotected service. It doesn't cost much, if anything to launch a brute force attack.
There's been posts on here about malicious browser extensions, infected IOT devices, malware in mobile apps that give someone the means to launch an utterly brutal attack. Imagine if I had a service that could handle 10k rps. Now imagine 600k android devices from all across the world send one request per second each [0].
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A raspberry pi can generate enough traffic to overload an otherwise unprotected service. It doesn't cost much, if anything to launch a brute force attack.
There's been posts on here about malicious browser extensions, infected IOT devices, malware in mobile apps that give someone the means to launch an utterly brutal attack. Imagine if I had a service that could handle 10k rps. Now imagine 600k android devices from all across the world send one request per second each [0].
[0] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/mobile-saf...