The damages were for millions of users of sites like Twitter, Netflix, Vox, Spotify, in the united States and even in Europe.
Agencies
WASHINGTON, D. C. – Millions of users were affected by the cyber attack, mass Friday, considered one of the most serious and severe that have been recorded in recent years, were reported to authorities in the us.
The Department of homeland Security (DHS, for its acronym in English) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continue to investigate the attack that 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 attributed this morning’s alleged responsibility for the attack via Twitter, which has not been confirmed, published Notimex.
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, based in the united States.
"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 who identified themselves as “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.
"from 07:00 of October 21, ( … ), begin monitoring and reduction of a DDoS attack against our DNS infrastructure managed Dyn,” the company said in a statement.
By 09:20, Dyn said that the services had been "restored to normal", but less than three hours later, he admitted that he was monitoring again an attack against your DNS server.
The cuts initial affected mainly the east coast of the united States, but at noon it was expanded to California and even Europe.
Although there has been little information available on the cause or who is behind the attack, firms resorted to Twitter to inform customers to stay calm, while the White House described the attack as "malicious".
"we’re having some problems at this moment and the research. We will keep you informed," wrote the website of audiovisual content to Spotify.
"A global event affecting a supplier. GitHub services may be intermittently available at the moment," tweeted GitHub.
Dyn, based in New Hampshire, said that its data centers were affected by three waves of attacks distributed denial of service attacks, which overwhelm the machines with the data traffic is not desired directed.
The attacks, moving geographically, had knock-on effects for users attempting to access popular websites in the united States, even in Europe.
what about Russia?
Fran Townsend, a consultant on national security for CBS News, pointed to Russia as a possible instigator.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security told CBS News that they were investigating “all possible causes”, but have not gone so far as to say that it was an attack sponsored by that nation.
The flood of data came from tens of millions of different machines connected to the Internet – including the devices in the home increasingly popular but highly insecure, such as cameras connected to the Web.
The collective, NewWorldHacking on Twitter, in the past has claimed responsibility for similar attacks against websites, including ESPN.com in September and the BBC on the 31st of December.
The group has also been awarded the authorship of cyber attacks against the Islamic State.
"Prophet" said that it is in India. "Zain" she said that it is in China. The two claimed that their actions were "good", presumably because it highlighted the problems of Internet security.
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