{"id":53056,"date":"2016-10-21T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53056"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:12:48","slug":"dns-cyber-attack-returns-as-northeast-internet-traffic-grinds-to-a-crawl-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53056","title":{"rendered":"Was the real target of the NE Internet attacks the DNC leaks on REDDIT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DNS Cyber Attack Returns As Northeast Internet Traffic Grinds To A Crawl For Second Time<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>What was supposed to be a temporary internet outage, after an attack &#8220;of unknown origin&#8221; on DNS service provide DYN took down much of the internet in the North East, appears to have returned, and moments ago DYN announced that it was once again experiencing the same &#8220;attack&#8221; as this morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DDOS ATTACK MAY ALSO AFFECT MANAGED DNS ADVANCED SERVICES: DYN<\/li>\n<li>DYN SAYS DDOS ATTACK MAY CAUSE POSSIBLE DELAYS IN MONITORING<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even the White House is involved now:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WH aware of cyber interruptions on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@twitter<\/a> et al services. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DHSgov<\/a> taking close look at \u201cthat malicious activity,&quot; says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Knoller (@markknoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markknoller\/status\/789501769520914432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Which means Putin will be blamed in 5&#8230; 4&#8230;. 3&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the attack has made updating the Level 3 Internet outage map virtually impossible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/10\/16\/outage%20map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/10\/16\/outage%20map_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>Early this morning, millions of panicked Americans realized they may have to be productive when suddenly their favorite social media website or news outlet was unavailable for up to an hour.\u00a0 As it turns out, the culprit was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/be17ead1-293c-3c73-82a6-02ed7b116ed2?emailid=55ccb875090bff0300e78b63&amp;segmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb\">an enormous cyberattack<\/a>&#8221; which disrupted traffic to hundreds of websites including <strong>Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, eBay and the New York Times<\/strong>, particularly for internet users on the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newshawk\/status\/789455464908070914\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"789455464908070914\" data-twitter-event-id=\"5\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard MediaCard--mediaForward customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<p><a class=\"MediaCard-borderOverlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newshawk\/status\/789455464908070914\/photo\/1\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">View image on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 790px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 62.6582%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage \" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newshawk\/status\/789455464908070914\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CvS1jHzWcAEXGkC.jpg:small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"790\" height=\"495\" data-srcset=\"http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCvS1jHzWcAEXGkC.jpg%3Alarge 790w,http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCvS1jHzWcAEXGkC.jpg 790w,http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCvS1jHzWcAEXGkC.jpg%3Asmall 680w\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here your Twitter problem. (Level3 outage map) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yzqfYuH33b\">pic.twitter.com\/yzqfYuH33b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Leyden (@newshawk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newshawk\/status\/789455464908070914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The attack was targeted at a New Hampshire-based company called Dyn, a DNS service that translates readable names for websites (such as zerohedge.com) into an IP address that the internet understands. \u201cWithout it, we\u2019d all be having to type numbers into web browsers rather than the names of websites.\u201d said security researcher Graham Cluley.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/Dyn\/status\/789444349998268416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Dyn is one of the largest services of its kind, and its widespread outage means the companies that rely on it will be unable to load their websites. Users arriving at the pages will get an error message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting at 11:10 UTC on October 21st-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our\u2026infrastructure,\u201d the company said on its site. \u201cThis attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting\u2026customers in this region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why this attack, and why now? As of this moment we don&#8217;t know, however we are confident that a Russian &#8220;involvement&#8221; will soon be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, for those who enjoy tracking cyberwars in as they take place, here is a real-time map of internet attacks courtesy of Norsecorp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/map.norsecorp.com\/#\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2016\/10\/16\/attacks%20cyber_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\">\u00a0___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-21\/enormous-cyber-attack-takes-down-hundreds-websites-how-track-global-cyber-war\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-10-21\/enormous-cyber-attack-takes-down-hundreds-websites-how-track-global-cyber-war<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNS Cyber Attack Returns As Northeast Internet Traffic Grinds To A Crawl For Second Time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}