Mysterious "LOVE" packet storms flood the internet since 2020

16 pointsposted a day ago
by geocrasher

3 Comments

>The TCP traffic also adjusts parameters such as window sizes to emulate different operating systems, keeping the activity stealthy and difficult to pinpoint.

>The Time to Live (TTL) values, which dictate how long a packet stays on the network before it's discarded, are set between 120 and 200 to resemble realistic network hops.

Sounds like someone testing something nefarious.

oniony

a day ago

Yeah, when we start seeing HATE packets we'll know they've gone into production.