‘Hackers’ claim massive cyber attack – The Universal

Washington.— Millions of users were affected by the cyber attack, mass Friday, considered one of the most severe that have been recorded in recent years, reported american authorities.

The Department of homeland Security and the FBI are investigating the attack, which affected popular sites such as Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, Etsy, Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Amazon, and Reddit.

The members of a group of cybersquatters that call themselves "New World" was blamed yesterday the responsibility for the attack via Twitter, a version that has not been confirmed. The group has claimed in the past responsibility for similar attacks against websites, including ESPN.com and the BBC.

Expressed that organized networks of connected computers "zombies", who threw a staggering 1.2 terabits of data per second to servers managed by the company Dyn. "We did not do this to attract federal agents, it was only to show the power of the test," he pointed to two members of the collective, those who were identified as a Prophet and Zain.

Dyn, which manages the domains, web sites, and routes the internet traffic, experienced two denial of service attacks (DDoS) on its servers; that is, an attempt to flood a website with so much traffic that impairs the normal service.

"If you go to one of these providers of DNS services, you can interrupt a lot of on-line services, that is exactly what we saw this Friday," said Jeremiah Grossman, chief of cyber-security strategy in the startup SentinelOne.

The company reported that as of 7:00 on Friday began the reduction of a DDoS attack against their infrastructure. At 9:20 said that the services had been "restored to normal", but less than three hours later, he admitted that he was monitoring a new attack.

The cuts initial affected mainly the east coast of the united States, but at noon it was expanded to California and even Europe.

The massive cyber attack returned to raise the alarm about the vulnerability of computer systems in the united States. The government of that country has opened an investigation as "malicious activity" by the attacks.

Experts warned about the surprising scale of the attack, since it pointed to the core switches that manage internet traffic, something that is unprecedented. "We had never seen anything like this designed to impact as many web sites," said David Jones, director of sales engineering of the company Dynatrace.