Technique

Null routing

technique:null_routing Also: null-routed

Network mitigation action described as discarding incoming attack traffic and temporarily taking a website offline to protect the rest of a network.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming INVOLVES Devon and Cornwall Police website DDoS Uncertain 62

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Devon and Cornwall Police website DDoS INVOLVES Null routing

Jack says the website may have remained down because police IT staff null-routed the incoming traffic, but presents this as a likelihood rather than a confirmed fact.

Uncertain Confidence 89% · Jack Rhysider EP 62 Details

“What likely happened was that somebody within the IT team at the police station just null-routed this incoming traffic”