The U.S. Has Been Hit By Large-Scale DDoS Attack

[ElYubiYubi]

On June 15, a flurry of reports on a number of different services in the U.S. have indicated that the country may be experiencing a coordinated DDoS, or “distributed denial of service” attack. These attacks are malicious attempts to disrupt or shut down targeted servers by overwhelming them with traffic from multiple sources.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessed...large-scale-ddos-attack-others-are-skeptical/

Its also trending on Twitter.

 

[FAST6191]

When people say the US I expect government infrastructure, network infrastructure, not a couple of banks and some streaming services and whatnot.
Now such services do represent something significant and if they are being attacked it would speak to a fairly major play but the categorisation is an odd one, though I am sure some will argue it is academic (they do represent fairly major interests, and if not and out and out act of war if it is a nation state then serious act of aggression).
Do we have any word on whether this is a sophisticated attack, one likely to be knocked out in reasonably short order if the people in question have a good team, what the main sites actually are and whether they are experiencing real issues? That forbes article is rather light on info.

 

[Bladexdsl]

so they are targeting streaming services? HA they will be doing us a favor knocking them offline!

 

[Thunder Hawk]

Doesn't this happen every day? Even right now?

 

[Scarlet]

Wasn't this just T Mobile screwing up their network and people wanting a headline?

 

[FAST6191]

Yeah, however many hours on this is I am not seeing anything in the IT or general press about a DDOS and just things about some engineers a T-mobile probably having one of those "oh shit" moments.

Impressed that it knocked out voice as well, though if most voice carriers are little more than VOIP operators with a fancy endpoint then meh.