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This was an impressive one, some notable victims: Github, Twitter, SaneBox, and Reddit. I am curious who the actual target was, while other sites ended up being collateral damage.

Source

Wasn't Dyn the target of the attack?

Dyn infrastructure was attacked, but that does not mean the threat actors wanted to harm Dyn, the actual target could have been any of Dyn's customers.

Latest chatter indicates that apparently the attack involved Mirai botnet.

" So far Dyn has not been able to ascertain whether the attack is aimed at any specific customer. "We have no reason to believe it is at this point," said Dave Allen, the company's general counsel. The attack is "consistent with record-setting sized cyberattacks seen in the last few weeks," said Carl Herberger, vice president of security at security company Radware. A post on Hacker News first identified the attack and named the sites that were affected. Several sites, including Spotify and GitHub, took to Twitter Friday morning to post status updates once the social network was back online."