Massive DDoS on the infrastructure of the DNS provider Dyn.com led to the inaccessibility of Twitter, Github, Heroku and others

    The massive DDoS attack on the infrastructure of the major network service provider Dyn , which is taking place at the moment, has led to the inaccessibility of many popular resources using the company's DNS services. The victims include such well-known organizations as Github, Twitter, eBay, New York Times, Etsy, SoundCloud, Spotify, Heroku, Shopify, PayPal and many others.

    According to Dyn, the attack on the DNS infrastructure began on October 21, 2016 at 11:10 UTC (14:10 Moscow time). At 13:20 UTC, performance was restored. However, already at 15:52 UTC, the second wave began, which their engineers still cannot reflect.

    Latest information from 21:43 UTC

    Just a few minutes ago, Google’s public DNS did not have information on the github.com IP addresses, but it appeared in the process of writing this article. The IP addresses of twitter.com, soundcloud.com, heroku.com, quora.com, box.com are still not available.

    The source of the attack is currently unknown, however, given the period during which one of the largest service providers cannot cope with it, one can only be amazed at the amount of resources available to the attackers.

    UPD1: Meanwhile, events are developing. The company told CNBC that it had reached a third wave of attack. An interesting detail: according to company representatives, one of the sources of the attack is the Internet of Things. They also report that the attack is carried out using devices infected with malicious code that appeared in recent weeks. It is still unknown who is behind this attack. Attackers are silent. “All they do is move around the world with every attack,” said Kyle York, director of strategic affairs at Dyn.

    The US Department of Homeland Security said it is "investigating all the possible causes" of the attack. U.S. intelligence officials said they excluded North Korea from the list of suspects.

    The attack "is well planned and implemented, and occurs simultaneously with tens of millions of addresses," the company told CNBC.

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