Biggest Cyber Attack in History??

[AfricanTech]

Anyone pickup on this article?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...sting-company-and-antispam-group-8551815.html

A row between an anti-spam group and a web-hosting company has caused a slowdown in the global internet after what experts are calling the biggest cyber-attack in history.

Internet services across the world have been disrupted and widespread congestion risks jamming crucial online infrastructure, the BBC reported today.

Millions of web users have experienced disruption to services like Netflix along with longer than usual delays in loading websites. Experts are now concerned that the congestion could lead to banking and email systems being slowed down.

The dispute began when Spamhaus, a group that campaigns against spam on the internet, added the Dutch company Cyberbunker to its blacklist.

Spamhaus, which is based in London and Geneva, uses a blacklist to filter unwanted messages from emails.

rest of article in link

And here we are blaming Seacom/MWeb/Afrihost/et al

 

[Picard]

I can guarantee the hackers are not situated in South Africa.

 

[sitnet]

Quite interesting, will go read the whole article. But we do know for a fact that the Seacom outage was the root cause of the internet problems here in South Africa, but it seems it might not be the only noteworthy cause.

 

[OMB]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/74281-biggest-cyber-attack-in-history-slows-global-internet.html

 

[AfricanTech]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/74281-biggest-cyber-attack-in-history-slows-global-internet.html

Eish - this is what happens when your default link is set to "Whats New" - you miss the front page articles - I picked up the story via Flipboard

 

[DJ...]

Eish - this is what happens when your default link is set to "Whats New" - you miss the front page articles - I picked up the story via Flipboard

Don't worry. You were first...

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-of-unprecedented-scale-slows-global-Internet

 

[ciscoyeti]

****ing cyber attacks, cable cuts and now Egyptian coast guard caught divers deliberately cutting the seacom cable. I'm about ready to kill somebody.

 

[fragtion]

And here we are blaming Seacom/MWeb/Afrihost/et al

You say that as if you do not trust Seacom's (or EASSy's) OWN testimony that their own (or one of their uplink partner's) cable was severed? The network engineers know how to differentiate between a totally cut comms cable, and ip-level congestion/DDoS...
Mweb, for example, wouldn't have reported that Seacom have had a break on their fibre, if in fact the congestion was caused by a DDoS attack instead. Furthermore, the fact that any local ISP who utilizes WACS or SAT3 remains unaffected, shows that this alleged DDoS attack hasn't had much of a relevant impact at all, really

 

[w1z4rd]

Anyone pickup on this article?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...sting-company-and-antispam-group-8551815.html
rest of article in link

And here we are blaming Seacom/MWeb/Afrihost/et al

It was them... this ddos didnt down the link. Lol man.

 

[AfricanTech]

You say that as if you do not trust Seacom's (or EASSy's) OWN testimony that their own (or one of their uplink partner's) cable was severed? The network engineers know how to differentiate between a totally cut comms cable, and ip-level congestion/DDoS...
Mweb, for example, wouldn't have reported that Seacom have had a break on their fibre, if in fact the congestion was caused by a DDoS attack instead. Furthermore, the fact that any local ISP who utilizes WACS or SAT3 remains unaffected, shows that this alleged DDoS attack hasn't had much of a relevant impact at all, really

Of course not - I'm talking about the fact that we're ONLY blaming Seacom and cable breaks.

Over the last week or so I have trialed, tested, pushed and prodded most of the major ISP networks (after MWeb's sub-optimal response to the issues last week) and believe me, all the users on all the ISP networks are moaning like blazes (hmm, maybe with the exception of plugg where the noise levels are relatively low).

Just saying that it's not ONLY Seacom to blame for poor international response - there are other factors out there.

 

[w1z4rd]

Of course not - I'm talking about the fact that we're ONLY blaming Seacom and cable breaks.

Over the last week or so I have trialed, tested, pushed and prodded most of the major ISP networks (after MWeb's sub-optimal response to the issues last week) and believe me, all the users on all the ISP networks are moaning like blazes (hmm, maybe with the exception of plugg where the noise levels are relatively low).

Just saying that it's not ONLY Seacom to blame for poor international response - there are other factors out there.

Its 99% seacom (and those other cut cables).

300Gbs while a huge attack, is a tiny tiny tiny fraction of internet traffic. Consider that Seacom itself (just one african cable) its 640Gbs, For instance, I have servers in Sweden, Germany and the USA. There was no impact to them.

 

[w1z4rd]

I see Cyberbunker is down. Counter DDOS?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

So they're bringing everyone's interwebs down to our level

 

[w1z4rd]

This has a more rational take on the attack: http://gizmodo.com/cyberbunker/

Seems only small parts of the internet were affected by this, but those small parts were affected in a big way.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

 

[w1z4rd]

I see Cyberbunker is down. Counter DDOS?

Yup, I speculated correctly. Cyberbunker is under ddos in revenge.

http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/ddos-spam-feud-backfires-bulletproof-cyb/240151895

The anything-goes Dutch hosting provider CyberBunker, which has been accused of backing a DDoS disruption campaign against anti-spam site Spamhaus, as of Thursday morning found its own supposedly bulletproof website knocked offline, making it the apparent victim of a sustained DDoS attack.

That's an ironic twist for CyberBunker, which has been one of the most outspoken proponents -- and, some have alleged, sponsors -- of a week-long series of massive DDoS attacks against Spamhaus.

I laughed at this:

"Well, it's not us, it's a group of Internet providers which goes under the name Stophaus.com

A domain that appears to be ddos`d as well.