While powerful tools may seem miles ahead of the average cyber crook’s ventures, DDoS attacks aren’t incredibly complicated. Big names such as Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, and more count among those affected. The natural question is “ How did this happen?” It happened due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack - or DDoS for short.

The resulting chaos essentially closed the entire East Coast of the U.S., before spreading to other parts of the country and overseas, from a section of the web. Using brute-force tactics that flood key elements of the internet’s structure, cybercriminals managed to shut down a variety of popular websites. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack.We’re no strangers to Armageddon-scenario movies, but today a real disaster hit the internet. “We all need our daily fix of the digital programs that are so intertwined into our daily lives and when those services are down we tend to get a little edgy.” “DDoS, of course, may not only be used to make a statement or bring voice to your protests, it may and has on many occasions been used as a smokescreen to cover other nefarious purposes, which may include data theft or malware infection. Mark James, from cyber security firm ESET, said: “DDoS seems to be more widely used these days to cause disruption and nuisance. Security experts labelled the attack a “nuisance” but warned the style of attack can sometimes be used as a diversion from other activity. However, some in the UK also reported issues accessing their Twitter and Spotify accounts. Twitter being down had me questioning my existence

What did you guys do while twitter was down? I hit the gym, read 3 books, wrote a film and also did none of this because my life was ruined The attack was first reported on website Hacker News, which named social media giant Twitter and music service Spotify among a list of “sites down”, with most of those affected based in the US. However, Dyn has now tweeted that “services have been restored to normal” after around an hour of disruption. The incident left many users cut off from a range of services.

DDoS attack knocks major sites, including Twitter and Spotify, offline 2201 days agoĪ cyber attack that left Twitter and Spotify among a host of websites knocked offline has been resolved, the subject of the attack has claimed.Ī distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack – when a website is flooded with traffic until it can no longer support it and is forced offline – had targeted domain name system provider Dyn, which in turn disrupted service to many of its customers, including SoundCloud, Airbnb and Reddit.

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