Massive DDoS Attack Taking Out Websites
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/21/2016 03:21 PM [ Comments ]
More and more outages are happening across the U.S. as a massive DDoS attack is targeting Dyn DNS.
Engineers are working on it but the outages are spreading from the east coast to the west coast.
Dyn DNS is used by many websites and services as their upstream DNS provider, including Twitter, Spotify, SaneBox, Reddit, Box, Github, Zoho CRM, PayPal, Airbnb, Freshbooks, Wired.com, Pinterest, Heroku and Vox Media properties.
"This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue."
"Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available."
"Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to reach out to our Technical Support Team."
The below picture is showing the most recent spread.
Source: The Hacker News
Dyn DNS is used by many websites and services as their upstream DNS provider, including Twitter, Spotify, SaneBox, Reddit, Box, Github, Zoho CRM, PayPal, Airbnb, Freshbooks, Wired.com, Pinterest, Heroku and Vox Media properties.
"This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue."
"Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available."
"Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to reach out to our Technical Support Team."
The below picture is showing the most recent spread.
Source: The Hacker News
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