Russian warning shot?

[crimethink]

Many sites including Twitter, Shopify and Spotify suffering outage

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

A number of popular sites and services are down right now for many users, including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify. The cause appears to be a sweeping outage of DNS provider Dyn, as a result of a DDOS attack, according to a post on Hacker News.

We’re tracking the outage and will let you know if we discover anything further about outage length, cause or sites affected.

Other sites experiencing issues include Box, Boston Globe, New York Times, Github, Airbnb, Reddit, Freshbooks, Heroku and Vox Media properties. Users accessing these sites might have more or less success depending on where they’re located, as some European and Asian users seem not to be encountering these issues.

Dyn says that the DDOS attack affecting its customers is mostly impacting the U.S. East coast, and specifically Managed DNS customers. Engineers are working on “mitigating” the issue, according the DNS provider.

As of around 9:15 AM ET some of the affected services appear to be improving in reliability. We’ll continue to monitor for updates.

Developing…

[crimethink]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3133847/internet/ddos-attack-on-dyn-knocks-spotify-twitter-github-etsy-and-more-offline.html

Hacker News users report the following sites are down:

Twitter
Etsy
Github
Soundcloud
Spotify
Heroku
Pagerduty
Shopify
Intercom


http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2016/10/level-3-down-100688862-large.jpg

[Joshua01]

I tried a few of these sites and they seem fine

[Glass]

sounds serious

Early this morning, millions of panicked Amiercans realized they may have to be productive when suddenly their favorite social media website or news outlet was unavailable for up to an hour

[Joshua01]

sounds serious

Not to me it's not

[midnight rambler]

http://mashable.com/2016/10/21/sites-across-internet-struggle-after-cyberattack/#WAhMNW2XkOqn

[crimethink]

The fact it's isolated to the Eastern US and a portion of Texas (Austin) is "interesting." And, to me, makes a statement.

[Joshua01]

The fact it's isolated to the Eastern US and a portion of Texas (Austin) is "interesting." And, to me, makes a statement.

Hackers come in all shapes and sizes. This could be any group of hackers, not necessarily the Russians

[crimethink]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/denial-of-service-web-attack-affects-amazon-twitter-others-1477056080

Several websites including Twitter and Tumblr were unreachable during an extended period for many internet users Friday following an online attack.

Web technology provider Dyn said its domain name system, or DNS, service was subject to a massive distributed denial-of-service attack starting at 7:10 a.m. on Friday.

Denial of service attacks can knock websites offline by flooding them with junk data, blocking the way for legitimate users. Dyn’s DNS services are a key part of the digital supply chain that allows web addresses—Twitter.com, for instance—to take users to the infrastructure that hosts them.

Dyn said its services were back up by around 9:20 a.m. ET. The company didn’t disclose the source of the attack.

Dyn said access to Spotify was also interrupted, and other sites, such as Github and Fastly, said they were affected. The Wall Street Journal’s website also was down for periods Friday morning.

“We’re still digging into root cause, but ultimately it was limited to the East Coast of the U.S.,” Dyn spokesman Adam Coughlin said.

Security experts say denial of service attacks have grown more powerful over the past year. A sustained assault on the website of security researcher Brian Krebs last month broke records partly because the network that launched it used hundreds of thousands of connected cameras, digital video recorders and other “smart” devices, according to website defender Akamai Technologies Inc.

Amazon.com Inc. also said it had found the root cause of DNS problems affecting its East Coast cloud customers and resolved the issue, though it didn’t disclose the cause. Amazon had said it was looking into an elevated number of errors related to accessing its cloud services in a main East Coast server hub due to DNS issues. Amazon Web Services runs a broad array of websites.

Amazon said the problems occurred between 7:31 a.m. and 9:10 a.m. Eastern time.

Cloud services provider Heroku Inc. also said it saw “widespread” DNS issues related to a denial of service attacks against one of its DNS providers, but it had resolved the issue.

[boogietillyapuke]

When I read shit like this the first place I go to is http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

russia isn't even in the top 10 in any type attack. #1 attack origination point is the US and most are coming from Microsoft and going to a place called Dekalb junction in NY somewhere. Maybe it's a backbone hub,then again ........who knows.

[crimethink]

When I read shit like this the first place I go to is http://map.norsecorp.com/#/

russia isn't even in the top 10 in any type attack. #1 attack origination point is the US and most are coming from Microsoft and going to a place called Dekalb junction in NY somewhere. Maybe it's a backbone hub,then again ........who knows.

Uh, one of cyberwarfare's objectives is usually to obscure where the command & control is located. It's always a brilliant move to use someone else's servers to do the actual deed.

[midnight rambler]

Uh, one of cyberwarfare's objectives is usually to obscure where the command & control is located. It's always a brilliant move to use someone else's servers to do the actual deed.

It's also very clever to weaponize 'the internet of things'

[crimethink]

It's also very clever to weaponize 'the internet of things'

Exploding Samsung washing machines? LOL

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/10/19/samsung-exploding-washing-machines/

Edit: I confirmed that some of the recalled washers are "connected" machines...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.washer&hl=en

[ximmy]

Early this morning, millions of panicked Amiercans realized they may have to be productive when suddenly their favorite social media website or news outlet was unavailable for up to an hour

ridiculous. I won't be panicked or really even care if or when it goes down. get unplugged.

[midnight rambler]

Apparently Twitter is still down.

[Joshua01]

Do you think Hillary has it in the bag?

(copied from another board)

Has anyone seen this one yet?

From ZH comments. Now before you downloaded it for safe keeping I would scan it for viruses before opening. Seems like a very large file for a pretty small .pdf. Open in a sandbox if you have one. But there might not be any problem, Here is the comment from ZH. Really good info about the demographics.

WARNING is this for real?? Read it all, page 6 is when it gets freaky - pass this on, any thoughts would be welcome

http://media.wix.com/ugd/0cf371_514bfe6a2dec4871ab7da7d50b9be410.pdf

[midnight rambler]

WARNING is this for real?? Read it all, page 6 is when it gets freaky - pass this on

Summary?

[Joshua01]

Summary?

I downloaded and scanned for viruses....it's clean. You need to read it. There's some shit in there that made even me cringe.

Sample of page 6 (sans formatting)

BENENSON STRATEGY GROUP 1 000 Potomac Street, N.W., Suite 420 Washington, D.C. 20007 TEL 202.339.6060
Salvage Options (Recommendation & Alternatives)

We have analyzed a number of potential salvage options and have a strong recommendation.
Non-Recommended Salvage Options

The public has been primed for radiological attack and stockpiles have been positioned but while the psychological impact of a Co-60 weapon is severe, the threshold of opportunity may have passed for this to stop a vote.
Improved strains of ZIKV have been delivered and we have disseminated them to operatives. Unfortunately this will suppress women voters more than men (even as ZIKV2 is lethal in adults). This would hurt Hillary Clinton and Trump voters are willing to risk lethal pathogens to vote
HAARP is in skeleton crew mode. Subterranean thermobaric devices in fracking mines are untested. Surveys suggest this might not stop Trump voters
Recommended Salvage: FIRESIGN
For almost two decades the Department of Defense and NASA have coordinated on a black book project under the codename FIRESIGN. FIRESIGN’s aim is to create a religious “awe effect” in enemy populations to create an instantaneous psychological soft-kill (abject submission). The operation uses high powered lasers to project real- seeming images on the sodium layer 100km above the surface. These images can cover hundreds or even thousands of square miles and can appear completely real, three dimensional, and can move.
Loss of profit under martial law. Leaks could compromise
Post-election control
Unproven techniques / unintended consequences
Reactivating HAARP may have PALE HORSE PROTOCOL ramifications
Optional Scenario Notes Risks / Issues
Red Dawn
Cobalt Rain
BLRiot Zikpocalypse
Sharia Escalation Unnatural Disaster
Support is too wide-spread. While an RD scenario using UN Loss of property (& life)
forces and Canadian-border infil would be effective in Alt-Right forces are prepared for battle shutting down northern voting, it would simply delay the
inevitable and result in hardened support for Mr. Trump.
States have blocked key immigrant operatives. Without the required Muslim-Islamist population in place, the IE plan will not be sufficiently impactful.
LEO is pro-Trump and will not roll over due to Muslim demands of political correctness
These visual cues are augmented with pulsed ELF electromagnetic
emissions (see: PROJECT SANGUINE) that attack the specific areas
of the prefrontal cortex that are stimulated during religious
experience. In limited tests, subjects have been able to be
overwhelmed on both axis of vastness (an overwhelming of the
subject’s frame of reference) and a powerful need-for-
accommodation. The mix of these two will produce inaction, lack of
focus on self or individual interaction, and gross transformations in mental equilibrium (a Road-to-Damascus Experience).

BENENSON STRATEGY GROUP
1 000 Potomac Street, N.W., Suite 420
Washington, D.C. 20007 TEL 202.339.6060

The ability to produce these effects across 23% of the continental United States is the objective of FIRESIGN and field tests in the Levant have proven successful.
The FIRESIGN scenario is that of an invading extraterrestrial force of nearly incomprehensible scale (massive floating cities descending, god-sized “walkers” among the clouds with terrifying weapons, wheels of fire and eyes, etc.). This phenomena, when activated will bring electoral and social systems to a halt and, in afflicted areas, will permit a narrative wherein POTUS is able to “Call a halt” to the invasion and then “hand over the torch” to Clinton, providing a basic continuity of state.
AFTERMATH
The aftermath of FIRESIGN will be the psychological subjugation of areas where uprisings are most likely to occur. The induced trauma of FIRESIGN will provide ample cover to government and NGOs who will be “providing aid” (psychotropic to induce docility) and counseling services which will ensure further domestication.
FIRESIGN will require a great deal of power, mobile command stations with nitrogen- cooled super-computers, and the co-opting of the ELF arrays. We have created a schedule and teams roster that can be moved into position following the third debate.

[monty]

Cannot open page medi.wix.com server not found

[Dogman]

Cannot open page medi.wix.com server not foundThis one ?

http://www.mediawix.com/

Works here..

[midnight rambler]

As I posted previously on the matter, bring it you Satan worshiping shit monkeys.

[monty]

This one ?

http://www.mediawix.com/

Works here..

it is loading with the ip address

http://107.178.254.135/ugd/0cf371_514bfe6a2dec4871ab7da7d50b9be410.pdf

[Dogman]

it is loading with the ip address

http://107.178.254.135/ugd/0cf371_514bfe6a2dec4871ab7da7d50b9be410.pdf Strange ? My link takes me to the site and not the pdf.


Maybe you need to break out a can of raid and do a decrittering...;D

Jk

[monty]

Strange ? My link takes me to the site and not the pdf.


Maybe you need to break out a can of raid and do a decrittering...;D

Jk

Iget this with your link

https://s19.postimg.org/w5hnxnu1v/image.png

[monty]

With the ip addy:

https://s19.postimg.org/qvcp6d9sz/image.png

[Dogman]

Iget this with your link

https://s19.postimg.org/w5hnxnu1v/image.pngSame here, tho I do not know what is normal for this site....

This is what I used from your op and then chosen one..

https://www.google.com/search?q=medi.wix.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=mediawix.com

[Joshua01]

8577

8578
Page 6-7 is a real head scratcher. What are they talking about?

[midnight rambler]

Apparently Twitter is still down.

Twitter still down.

[JohnQPublic]

Hard to believe. Does it look realistic though.

[Joshua01]

Hard to believe. Does it look realistic though.

No, they can't possibly think that will fly. Millions are waiting for some type of epic event by tptb to prevent the 'elections' and they will know something like this is on that list

[ximmy]

NBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-across-east-coast-knocked-out-in-apparent-ddos-attack.html) Internet traffic company Dyn on Friday warned of another cyberattack after websites and services across the East Coast were shut down earlier in the day.
Dyn told CNBC Friday afternoon the attacks are “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions IP addresses at same time.”
“We have begun monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed (Domain Name System) infrastructure. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue,” Dyn said on its website at 11:52 a.m. ET.

http://www.tacticalshit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/BREAKINGNEWS.png

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is when a web service is intentionally overwhelmed by traffic from many sources. It is a common method for digital assaults.
Dyn also said the attack impacted its DNS advanced services monitoring for customers, but it later resolved the issue.






It was not known who was behind the distributed denial of service attack.
The Department of Homeland Security told CNBC that it is “looking into all potential causes” of the attack. NBC News reported that one U.S. intelligence official said North Korea had been ruled out as a suspect.
The White House said U.S. authorities are monitoring reports of attack on the internet services company and whether it is a “criminal act,” according to Reuters.
Many prominent websites including Amazon (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/AMZN), Twitter (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/TWTR) and Spotify were shut down for nearly two hours Friday morning by an earlier denial of service attack. CNBC.com was also affected. Amazon reported later that it was once again having service issues but resolved the problem.
Later in the day, Netflix (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/NFLX) and PayPal (http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/PYPL) reported that they are experiencing issues, while Spotify and said some of its members were having trouble accessing their website.
Dyn said the earlier attack started at 7:10 a.m. ET. It affected Dyn’s Managed DNS infrastructure, which is the system that directs users to the correct webpage.

http://i.imgur.com/QG7YL7w.jpg

[crimethink]

Wave Two:


Department of Homeland Security launches urgent investigation as massive ongoing series of cyber attacks takes down sites including Amazon, Spotify, Reddit and Twitter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3859500/Widespread-internet-havoc-major-attack-takes-websites-offline-Spotify-Twitter-sites-suffer-outages.html#ixzz4NkrIHbVQ

A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks has forced hundreds of major websites from Amazon to Twitter offline.

Internet service company Dyn, which controls the 'address book' of the internet for dozens of major companies, said that it had suffered its first denial of service (DDoS) attack shortly after 6AM ET (11AM BST), in an attack that mostly affected the east coast of the US.

It confirmed a second attack was underway at 1PM ET, which appeared to be centred on UK servers, and later said 'several' attacks were underway attacks servers across the globe.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible and Gillian Christensen of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the agency was 'investigating all potential causes.'

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/21/19/3997B4C800000578-3859500-image-a-9_1477076298364.jpg

[crimethink]

West Coast now under web attack as East Coast recovers

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/21/after-big-internet-attack-most-sites-appear-to-be-back/


The West Coast is now under web attack. A host of websites are unavailable, including Twitter, in what appears to be a second assault Friday against a firm that connects internet users to websites.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly investigating. The attack raised fears that this could be a trial run for an attempt at a major disruption of the U.S. presidential election.

“Say, not to panic anybody, but what if the (attacks) today were practice for 11/8 ?” high-profile pundit Keith Olbermann tweeted.

[crimethink]

ridiculous. I won't be panicked or really even care if or when it goes down. get unplugged.

Don't be stupid.

Personally, I couldn't care less if "Web 2.0" disappeared forever. But I also grasp the fact the Internet is the driver and foundation for countless critical aspects of today's society.

A concerted DDOS attack, or worse, a viral attack that crippled the Internet for, say, three days, would result in your grocery stores running out of food. You say, "no problem, I have preps." Fine. 98% of your neighbors don't. And you will see them go from human to beast in exactly 2.5 seconds once they realize neither Safeway nor McDonalds have food today.

Same goes for gasoline, medical supplies, and so on. Most businesses use IP-based telephone systems, too - no longer POTS. As though people getting on the POTS lines and actually ordering shit is even within the realm of possibility in most cases anymore.


(I still maintain a POTS line for the IPocalypse scenario)

[ximmy]

IT's REDICULOUS TO think it isn't DNC...

they are already blaming the russians

[ximmy]

Don't be stupid.

Personally, I couldn't care less if "Web 2.0" disappeared forever. But I also grasp the fact the Internet is the driver and foundation for countless critical aspects of today's society.

A concerted DDOS attack, or worse, a viral attack that crippled the Internet for, say, three days, would result in your grocery stores running out of food. You say, "no problem, I have preps." Fine. 98% of your neighbors don't. And you will see them go from human to beast in exactly 2.5 seconds once they realize neither Safeway nor McDonalds have food today.

Same goes for gasoline, medical supplies, and so on. Most businesses use IP-based telephone systems, too - no longer POTS. As though people getting on the POTS lines and actually ordering shit is even within the realm of possibility in most cases anymore.


ximmy LOL's you

[midnight rambler]

coming from tens of millions IP addresses at same time.

'Cause tens of millions potential zombies (the internet of things) have been rendered zombies. It's precisely what Master Sun advised to do.

[crimethink]

It was not known who was behind the distributed denial of service attack.


We can rule out a group of metros calling themselves "Anonymous" or any other loosely organized group using their own pizza-delivery money.

This was a "state-actor" level attack. Which state, we don't know. It could very well be the Russians, doing as my thread title suggests, firing a warning shot in response to Clown Joe Biden's warning of cyberattack on Russia. But then, taking into consideration (((Olbermann's))) comment, perhaps this is a false flag ran by the NSA to pin on the Russians.

[Joshua01]

You say, "no problem, I have preps." Fine. 98% of your neighbors don't. And you will see them go from human to beast in exactly 2.5 seconds once they realize neither Safeway nor McDonalds have food today.

That's what the guns (Ideally (I admit to nothing) enough for the whole family and all my closest friends) and ammo are for Einstein

[midnight rambler]

We can rule out a group of metros calling themselves "Anonymous" or any other loosely organized group using their own pizza-delivery money.

This was a "state-actor" level attack. Which state, we don't know. It could very well be the Russians, doing as my thread title suggests, firing a warning shot in response to Clown Joe Biden's warning of cyberattack on Russia. But then, taking into consideration (((Olbermann's))) comment, perhaps this is a false flag ran by the NSA to pin on the Russians.

Cui bono?

[crimethink]

ximmy LOL's you

Why is ximmy clueless?

[crimethink]

'Cause tens of millions potential zombies (the internet of things) have been rendered zombies. It's precise what Master Sun advised to do.

Tens of millions of zombies running Micro$oft Windows with an American-based "security" (sic) software, all with NSA backdoors, plus "the Internet of Things" using PLCs less secure than those vulnerable to Stuxnet!

[Joshua01]

Do you know what you need for a DDoS attack on any website? Access to 6 or more individual computers (more is better) and watch a youtube video for the procedure. Any transvestite could do it

[ximmy]

Why is ximmy clueless?

Why is crimethink dumb?

http://cdn2.mommyish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/shutterstock_158087222.jpg


https://faithandamericanhistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/rockwell-freedom-from-want-1943.jpg

[crimethink]

You say, "no problem, I have preps." Fine. 98% of your neighbors don't. And you will see them go from human to beast in exactly 2.5 seconds once they realize neither Safeway nor McDonalds have food today.

That's what the guns (Ideally (I admit to nothing) enough for the whole family and all my closest friends) and ammo are for Einstein

Well, Smart One, we are talking about the seriousness of this threat, while two of you are saying, "oh, good, no more Internet, let's look at butterflies."

One does not need a nuclear war or biological attack to bring modern society to a standstill.

[crimethink]

Do you know what you need for a DDoS attack on any website? Access to 6 or more individual computers (more is better) and watch a youtube video for the procedure. Any transvestite could do it

God, just shut up instead of confirming your stupidity!

This is not a single, small website under attack.

[crimethink]

Why is crimethink dumb?


Trying to talk sense into your head is probably dumb on my part.

[ximmy]

Well, Smart One, we are talking about the seriousness of this threat, while two of you are saying, "oh, good, no more Internet, let's look at butterflies."

One does not need a nuclear war or biological attack to bring modern society to a standstill.

I'm pretty sure that butterfly was already identified as a bird...

[crimethink]

I'm pretty sure that butterfly was already identified as a bird...

Are you high? It's clearly a butterfly, and that's the point, illustrating how clueless the cartoon guy is.

[crimethink]

Important information in this thread, including attribution of the attacks to "friends of Wikileaks":

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?93030-friends-of-assange-take-down-large-portions-of-US-internet

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345/photo/1

8579

[Joshua01]

God, just shut up instead of confirming your stupidity!

This is not a single, small website under attack.

This has a Hillary tone to it. Not surprised at all

[Cebu_4_2]

I'm wondering, this "test" could it be a precurser for the electronic voting machines?

Always think outside the box.

[crimethink]

What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet Outage

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/

The overall picture is still somewhat hazy, but more information has become available as the day has progressed. Initial reports indicate that the attack was part of a genre of DDoS that infects Internet of Things devices (think webcams, DVRs, routers, etc.) all over the world with malware. Once infected, those Internet-connected devices become part of a botnet army, driving malicious traffic toward a given target. The source code for one of these types of botnets, called Mirai, was recently released to the public, leading to speculation that more Mirai-based DDoS attacks might crop up. Dyn said on Friday evening that the security firms Flashpoint and cloud services provider Akamai detected Mirai bots driving much, but not necessarily all, of the traffic in the attacks. Similarly, Dale Drew, the chief security officer of Internet backbone company Level 3, says that his company sees evidence of their involvement.

[Cebu_4_2]

No traffic through here unless I refresh or open a new window. Somehow I am safe.

I still think this a precurser test.

[crimethink]

Why Today’s Attacks on the Internet Are Just the Start

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/21/why-today-s-attacks-on-the-internet-are-just-the-start.html

Back in September Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, wrote about hackers probing the internet for points of weakness in an attempt to have the ability to take the entire net offline.

A lot of people blew that article off at the time as unrealistic. That was before today’s attacks which temporarily took down some of the biggest names on the internet.

People have tried to do this before, attacking the root DNS (Domain Name System) servers — the yellow pages of the internet — and failing. DNS underpins all our web browsing, the glue that points us to each of our favorite internet websites.

What’s happening today is hackers are explicitly targeting a company called Dyn with denial of service attacks — where a large amount of corrupt data is sent to overwhelm a company. Dyn are a cloud-based Internet Performance Management company, who provide something called “DNS services” to their customers. If DNS is like a telephone book, where you type in Twitter.com and get directed to the correct internet server, Dyn is the host for about a quarter-million of these phone book entries. That’s why big websites like Twitter and Reddit are misbehaving today.

What has happened over the last few years is businesses have consolidated to professional managed DNS providers, ironically in part due to the difficulty in mitigating denial of service attacks. This has created new centralized platforms for hackers to target.

And they are being targeted. Within the past month there was a distributed denial of service attack which totalled over 1,000 gigabits per second of traffic. That’s more bandwidth than many countries have. It’s a staggering volume of traffic, multiple times more than anything seen previously. (In 2015, Arbor networks reported what was then the world’s biggest DDoS attack: 334 gigabits per second.)

This is aiming to become the new normal. It is extremely difficult and costly to defend against — only a small number of companies can do it currently.

These attacks are driven, in part, by the “Internet of Things”—devices such as CCTV cameras and DVRs being directly attached to the internet, with poor security. Attackers are hacking these devices, inside homes and businesses across the world, to create “botnets”—a herd of infected devices, which they can use to launch attacks. Criminals are also selling attacks from these botnets for cheap prices, allowing anybody with a wallet to launch attacks against targets.

[crimethink]

Hackers Wrecked the Internet Today Using DVRs and Webcams

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a23504/mirai-botnet-internet-of-things-ddos-attack/

The internet has been on shaky footing for the better part of Friday thanks to a large-scale attack on a company that runs a large portion of crucial internet infrastructure. It's still too early to know exactly who is behind the attack, but experts have begun to pin down which devices are doing the bulk of the work. It's not computers, but devices from the so-called Internet of Things. We're talking smart fridges, web cams, and DVRs. It may sound funny, being attacked by refrigerators, but don't laugh. It's actually horrifying.

The current assault against Dyn is one of the simplest in a hacker's playbook. The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) doesn't require breaking into a target's computers or finding any secret weakness. Instead, it involves simply pummeling them with so much traffic they can't possibly keep up. Hackers executing a DDoS call upon millions of machines under their control and command them to ask the target for so many things all at once that the target all but melts down under the strain.

(...)

Executing a DDoS is simple, but only if you have millions of computers at your disposals. These computers—often known as "zombies"—are machines that have been compromised by some sort of virus or malware. This malware doesn't totally disable the computer, but just sits there waiting for the order to attack a target, as part of a swarm called a botnet.

Building a botnet can be a painstaking process. There are plenty of vulnerable computers in the world, but also plenty of people who take reasonably good care of their trusty phone or laptop, protecting it from infection. However, over the past five years or so, the Internet of Things has introduced millions upon millions of newly internet-connected devices—like DVRs and cameras and smart fridges and thermostats—that hackers can add to their swarms with terrifying ease.

The potential problem has been bubbling up for months, but reached a peak earlier this month when the source code for something called the "Mirai" botnet was released onto the web. Designed to target the Internet of Things specifically, Mirai can scoop up connected devices and add them to a botnet simply by attempting to log into them with their factory-default username and password. Have you changed the password on your smart fridge lately? I thought not.

The Mirai code focuses on all kinds of smart devices including cameras to internet-connected fridges, but its bread and butter is DVRs. Of the nearly 500,000 devices known to be compromised by the Mirai malware, some 80 percent of them are DVRs, according to an in-depth investigation of by Level 3 communications.

These infected DVRs, along with a few thousand other gadgets, can drive ludicrous amounts of traffic. Devices compromised by this malware were responsible for a 620Gbps attack against the security website Krebs on Security in September, the biggest DDoS the world had ever seen, at the time. Reports from the security firm Flashpoint, by way of Brian Krebs, suggest that it is a botnet based on exactly this technology that is responsible for today's outages, and Dyn has since confirmed this suspicion to TechCrunch.

Last month, security researcher Bruce Schneier started sounding the alarm that someone or something was carefully probing the internet for weakness. A scary prospect on its own, and one followed shortly thereafter by the full release of the Mirai code for any ne'er-do-well to use. Today's attack, it would seem, is a confluence of these two events: An attacker who has been carefully surveying the internet for weak points is now openly wielding one of the most capable blunt weapons we've ever seen blast the web.

The most terrifying part: This is probably only the beginning.

[Horn]

Hackers Wrecked the Internet Today Using DVRs and Webcams

The most terrifying part: This is probably only the beginning.

The same forces that want to install Internet 2, where you need .gov ID to access.

Its all Bitcoins fault

[Glass]

Does this mean my surveillance system could be attacking their surveillance system?

That would be...... whats the word? Ironic.

[Horn]

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vGlVxFvb--/tybflyq0dhglfxoxl1sg.png

http://shirtoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Harry-Tuttle-Heating-Engineer.jpg

[EE_]

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5LnNNGOZ0Cs/WAk3D3qAzxI/AAAAAAAAxO8/cI9U0cW1IW8GAh9LsHLZ7ssGrbpS0LvYgCLcB/s400/Putin4minutes.JPG

[Shami-Amourae]

No clue if this is true, but:

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1476/78/1476784981951.png

[crimethink]

No clue if this is true, but:

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1476/78/1476784981951.png

Someone who calls themselves an "expert computer scientist" is always suspect, but I find his assessment sound, except for the "special bunker" in Switzerland...and the timetable is probably long. And yes, a limited nuclear war, but nonetheless, one which the little folks can not "win."

[Joshua01]

No clue if this is true, but:

http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1476/78/1476784981951.png

What the hell is an 'expert computer scientist'? This is just somebody posting something to get noticed.

[cheka.]

heard on fox news - this 'attack' is just the beginning, they expect more. this is related to something i've been weighing.....that this one was a trial run, getting ready for the big one. a nyc.dc false flag - blaming whoever the skype want attacked