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[Chaplain]

Maybe. Too early to know. Could be another state actor it could also be a non-state criminal attack targeting Dyn.

Looks like it's getting worse : http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

Ya, the attack has spread to the West Coast:

 

[wenis]

I have access to Twitter since I'm not from the U.S (although the CSS isn't loading), saw Reuters tweet this:



https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/789505386546167808

Could you get me a screen grab of this reuters post? Thanks.

Updated the OP with latest info. Could I also get a MOD to update the title?

"You're not crazy: Possible cyber attack against U.S. internet infrastructure"

or whatever can fit.

 

[hitme]

All the major sites down = oh well
if all the porn sites were down = DAMMIT WHY

 

[Rebel Leader]

Still no PSn

 

[WolfForager]

According to that outage map, it's slowly spreading to Europe as well..

 

[maquiladora]

Can't open downdetector.com now lol

 

[joebruin]

I can't wait to change a million Passwords in about an hour.

just turn on 2factor for the important ones. i don't even bother using different passwords for a majority of my non-critical accounts now. hacker gonna post as me on gaf and get me banned? lol

 

[Demoskinos]

Still no PSn

Yup. And the one day I have off work and this shit happens.

 

[Joe]

I can access direct Tweet links like this just fine: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/789505386546167808

But Twitter.com homepage is inaccessible.

 

[Alebrije]

Its Skynet.

 

[jacobs34]

Damn. PSN, Spotify, Reddit and Twitter. They know where to hit us the hardest. Once they get to the porn sites we are all doomed. Doomed I tell you!

 

[KingBroly]

Its Skynet.

Maybe it's the US Government's attack on Russia's internet, but the reality is Russia already owns our internet.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

Spoiler

Seriously though, it's the Matrix

 

[SapphiCine]

Twitter was working fine for me earlier and now it has gone to shit.

http://indeed.com/ is down for me too.

I can connect to Amazon though. Huh.

 

[Arcia]

I can't wait to change a million Passwords in about an hour.

Why would you have to change passwords? Isn't this just a DDOS attack? They aren't stealing passwords right?

 

[Mr. Giggles]

The cyber wars have begun.

 

[zma1013]

No problem here, my internet is working tota

 

[superdeluxe]

Russia gonna Russia?

 

[Zophar]

watch Bush start a fucking war

 

[wenis]

Why would you have to change passwords? Isn't this just a DDOS attack? They aren't stealing passwords right?

Whoever "They" are wants to be doing something that they don't want anyone to see. Whatever that may be. Probably just on the safe side to start changing passwords and 2 stepping anything that can be.

 

[Clydefrog]

Damn. PSN, Spotify, Reddit and Twitter. They know where to hit us the hardest. Once they get to the porn sites we are all doomed. Doomed I tell you!

"lol people still download porn to their HDD?"

WHO IS LAUGHING NOW??

 

[andythinkpad]

I guess CIA and Russia are already going at it.

This is election season is 11/10,

 

[The Elite]

watch Bush start a fucking war

Post from an alternate Earth?

 

[JeTmAn81]

I'm ok with it. As long as I can keep doing my work (local website). If not, then...vacation!

 

[Netherscourge]

YUP.

One of our company servers was offline for 2 hours this morning.

It's already back up though.

We temp-switched to another DNS host.

Comcast was running fine all morning though, so we could connect to all the usual spots as normal. We just had a single remote server that we had to reroute.

In fact, it think it's over now.

Whatever they used, it was pretty easy to adjust to. For us anyway.

 

[Arcteryx]

Post from an alternate Earth?

He's talking about this one,

 

[SyNapSe]

Why would you have to change passwords? Isn't this just a DDOS attack? They aren't stealing passwords right?

Yeah, there is no reason to change any passwords if it's a denial of service attack

 

[brian577]

YUP.

Whatever they used, it was pretty easy to adjust to. For us anyway.

So we can rule out state actor?

 

[mangochutney]

So I'm not anywhere near the affected area, but if that's the case then folks can just switch to Google DNS and call it a day, right?

The area map is where the servers you are trying to access are located, not where people are browsing from.

I'm using Google DNS and access to companies using Dyn are being flaky and some are being slow to load as it tries presumably additional DNS servers.

Note I am in the UK, not the US East Coast.

 

[Cymbal Head]

Somebody call up Trump's son. I hear he can do unbelievable things with computers. Things ordinary people would think are hardly doable.

 

[Arcteryx]

So we can rule out state actor?

Honestly, if it was a state actor, I'd expect more "direct" hits than this.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

💀

 

[ajim]

Cyber wars in the future are going to be insane. Everything relies on the interwebs

 

[Captain Pants]

I've got a new computer coming from UPS today and I'm going to lose my mind if Steam goes down.

 

[FinKL]

Guess you have to work today.

Happy Friday!

Gaf is still up, but thanks for the updates! Was wondering why Reddit was down

 

[dkeane]

This is pretty crazy ...
http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

 

[Netherscourge]

So we can rule out state actor?

lol I have no idea who launched it.

It looks more like a spam attack than a complicated SQL attack. All you need is a couple thousand PCs or virtual machines to spam a server or even a single port to screw up web connections.

I have no idea where it originated from though. It's probably being blasted through proxies anyway, so good luck tracking them down.

 

[JeTmAn81]

It's pretty smart to take down DNS. The sites aren't actually down, but they might as well be down since user's computers don't know how to find them. Talk about your single point of failure.

 

[LordOfLore]

I can report that Sweden is affected by the DDOS attack or another one. Our cinema servers(taking care of the whole of Sweden) where ticket info etc are have been knocked out snd similar reports are incoming.

 

[demosthenes]

Looking forward to these attacks to grow and more and more businesses will be on board with internet 2.0. Some people have to ruin things for everyone else.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

watch Bush start a fucking war

Billy Bush?

 

[DopeyFish]

so russia just showing they're a bunch of script kiddies?

 

[v1lla21]

How many man-hours of downtime can we estimate here?

 

[Jawbreaker]

This is unprecedented, no? Seems like a huge deal.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Someone get Capcom on it..

 

[cyba89]

From Germany and my Twitter app doesn't load images (and occasionally doesn't load Tweets at all).

Spotify works fine.

 

[adj_noun]

Ya, the attack has spread to the West Coast:

Yeah now stuff that was working for me before is going down.

 

[superdeluxe]

I can report that Sweden is affected by the DDOS attack or another one. Our cinema servers(taking care of the whole of Sweden) where ticket info etc are have been knocked out snd similar reports are incoming.

Didn't Russia bring down Sweden's Air Traffic control recently?

 

[joebruin]

switching from my ISP dns to Google dns at least makes twitter accessible again...hah

 

[StoopKid]

Psn is one thing but not Spotify and twitter 😡

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

Somebody from Wikileaks comment on this yet?