Friday, October 21, 2016 4:53:00 PM
Third Wave Of Internet Cyber Attacks Lauched, Dyn Warns
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by Tyler Durden
Oct 21, 2016 4:45 PM
After two major, allegedly, cyber attacks targeted a little known internet infrastructure company, Dyn, earlier today disrupting access to dozens of websites on Friday, and preventing some users from accessing PayPal, Twitter and Spotify, moments ago the DNS service provider said that a third attack has been launched. From Reuters:
INTERNET DOMAIN NAME SERVICE PROVIDER DYN SAYS IT IS DEFENDING AGAINST A THIRD WAVE OF COMPLEX ATTACKS
DYN SAYS ATTACK BEING WAGED FROM DEVICES INFECTED WITH MALWARE, COMING FROM TENS OF MILLIONS OF IP ADDRESSES AROUND GLOBE
The source of the "millions" of malware attacks are so-called "smart" products, or everyday products around the house which are hooked up to the internet. So, while it may be difficult to pin this particular attack on Putin - though we are sure the "17 agencies" will try - one can blame their "smart" toaster, "smart" lightbulb" and "smart" toilet for making Twitter inaccessible.
As Reuters also adds, it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the outages that began in the Eastern United States, and then spread to other parts of the country and Western Europe.
U.S. officials told Reuters that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were investigating. The disruptions come at a time of unprecedented fears about the cyber threat in the United States, where hackers have breached political organizations and election agencies.
Homeland Security last week issued a warning about a powerful new approach for blocking access to websites - hackers infecting routers, printers, smart TVs and other connected devices with malware that turns them into "bot" armies that overwhelm website servers in distributed denial of service attacks.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-21/third-wave-internet-cyber-attacks-lauched-dyn-warns
Tyler Durden's picture
by Tyler Durden
Oct 21, 2016 4:45 PM
After two major, allegedly, cyber attacks targeted a little known internet infrastructure company, Dyn, earlier today disrupting access to dozens of websites on Friday, and preventing some users from accessing PayPal, Twitter and Spotify, moments ago the DNS service provider said that a third attack has been launched. From Reuters:
INTERNET DOMAIN NAME SERVICE PROVIDER DYN SAYS IT IS DEFENDING AGAINST A THIRD WAVE OF COMPLEX ATTACKS
DYN SAYS ATTACK BEING WAGED FROM DEVICES INFECTED WITH MALWARE, COMING FROM TENS OF MILLIONS OF IP ADDRESSES AROUND GLOBE
The source of the "millions" of malware attacks are so-called "smart" products, or everyday products around the house which are hooked up to the internet. So, while it may be difficult to pin this particular attack on Putin - though we are sure the "17 agencies" will try - one can blame their "smart" toaster, "smart" lightbulb" and "smart" toilet for making Twitter inaccessible.
As Reuters also adds, it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the outages that began in the Eastern United States, and then spread to other parts of the country and Western Europe.
U.S. officials told Reuters that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were investigating. The disruptions come at a time of unprecedented fears about the cyber threat in the United States, where hackers have breached political organizations and election agencies.
Homeland Security last week issued a warning about a powerful new approach for blocking access to websites - hackers infecting routers, printers, smart TVs and other connected devices with malware that turns them into "bot" armies that overwhelm website servers in distributed denial of service attacks.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-21/third-wave-internet-cyber-attacks-lauched-dyn-warns
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