I think the article is confusing two different issues, the malleability attacks and the dust attacks. Amaclin seems to be behind the dust attack, which is a cheap way to DoS the blockchain by causing blocks to reach the maximum number of SIGOPS with dust transactions, preventing real transactions from going through.<p>More details here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcointalk.org&#x2F;index.php?topic=1166928.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcointalk.org&#x2F;index.php?topic=1166928.0</a>