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Investigators may have an extremely tough time locating the attackers, however. The flooding of networks, in what are known as distributed denial-of-service attacks, is typically done using forged source addresses sent from servers compromised by the attackers before the actual assault, a double level of indirectness that is hard to crack.

But the need to find the attackers has grown in importance, Petro said, given that the recent trend of attacks has shifted from targeting company networks to targeting the infrastructure of the Internet itself.