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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackay

Twitter, Others Disrupted by DDoS Attack on Dyn DNS Service

October 24, 2016 by Ahmed A. Alkaysi 1 Comment

There has been another recent wide-scale DDoS attack, this time against Dyn DNS service. This company provides DNS service to Twitter, Etsy, GitHub, Souncloud, PagerDuty, Spotify, Shopify, Airbnb, Intercom and Heroku. All the listed sites were affected. It looks like the DDoS attack was launched used IoT devices, which was similar to the attack on the Krebs site a month ago. I wonder if we will start seeing more of these attacks on DNS service providers, instead of specific websites.

Article: http://www.securityweek.com/twitter-others-disrupted-ddos-attack-dyn-dns-service

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  1. Mauchel Barthelemy says

    October 30, 2016 at 12:52 pm

    According to recent reports, Feds pinned recent waves of DDoS attacks on Russia. In a retaliation response, not originated from The Feds, an American hacker struck back at Russia by leaving a warning message on Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on October 21, 2016. Further details about this can be accessed at the following link.

    http://www.thedailysheeple.com/american-hacker-strikes-back-at-russia-im-not-gonna-sit-around-watching-these-fers-laughing-at-us_102016

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