A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)
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On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor of 39 to 1.For three consecutive years, I2P has been hit with Sybil attacks every February. The 2023 and 2024 attacks used malicious floodfill routers and remain unattributed. When the 2026 attack b...
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