It is not known who was behind the attack are sitting and what their motive is. Companies like Dyn to bring people who are an address type to the right website. Dyn dropped on its website that its servers target of at least two cyber attacks.
The first attack began at around 13.10 hours (Dutch time). Over two hours later, with all the problems solved. Just before 18.00 hrs, however, there is still an attack.
Compared to the Us transmitter CNBC let Dyn around 22.30 know that there is a third attack was going on. At that time, it was also the second attack have not yet completed.
The attacks were also in the Netherlands can be observed. So it was in the Netherlands buienradar.nl hours unreachable.
Information
Hackers attacked the servers with so-called DDoS attacks, in which information from websites so often, it is requested that the servers collapse. The hackers used often multiple computers with malicious software being infected.
According to Dyn, the carefully planned and executed attacks” made by “tens of millions of IP addresses at once”. Each device that is connected to the internet, such as digital video recorders, and printers, has its own IP address.
Except Spotify and Twitter also include Netflix, Wired, PayPal, Reddit and GitHub use the DNS servers of Dyn.
Research
The U.s. department of the Interior has let know to investigate “all possible causes” of the attack on the internet infrastructure.
Probably the recherchedienst FBI participated in the investigation, according to two American officials against news agency Reuters.
offered as part
Online services such as the gamersnetwerk PlayStation Network seemed also to suffer from the problems. Between 19.00 and 20.00 complained hundreds of gamers on Allestoringen.nl about network problems.
were Also problems with the servers of the game publisher Electronic Arts reported. For many gamers was the failure at a very bad time, because Friday the long-awaited and popular Battlefield 1 is true.
Wikileaks
WikiLeaks called out via Twitter on the cyber attack to an end. “Assange is still alive, WikiLeaks publishes. We ask supporters to stop with the disabling of the American internet. Your point is made”, wrote the site.
It is not clear why WikiLeaks stressed that founder Julian Assange is still alive. Alternative sites are already a couple of days speculated that he died. Assange has spent years hiding in the embassy of Ecuador in London, because he is afraid that he is arrested and extradited to the US.
Earlier Friday published WikiLeaks a photo of armed agents outside the ambassadegebouw. WikiLeaks has, in recent years many secret American documents.
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