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> a bad actor is purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode’s business.

I wonder what size investment this is taking, and what the end-game is for the bad actor. Unless Linode's mitigation tactics are increasing the bad actor's costs, what's to stop the bad actor from continuing the attacks until Linode goes out of business?

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.. it may play out that the best defence is a good offense - ie. to hunt down and attack the attacker.

I imagine there are a few thousand linode fans who'd be happy to help fight back.

Stolen credit cards go a long, long way in AWS and GCE capacity.

Exactly. Plus, botnet capacity was cheaper than AWS last I checked where it was around $1 a machine. So easy to pull this off on the cheap that it could be anyone for any reason.

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