Whoa o_0 "Biggest Cyber Attack In History"

[kirksnosehair]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636


Damn, man, this is killing me right now as a web host......


Discuss

[Fiery Winds]

Mr Linford said the attack's power would be strong enough to take down government internet infrastructure.

"If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down instantly," he said. "They would be completely off the internet."

He added: "These attacks are peaking at 300 gb/s (gigabits per second).

"Normally when there are attacks against major banks, we're talking about 50 gb/s."

Pff, my SpeedTest is faster than that.

[kirksnosehair]

We saw the effects of this recently when suddenly, for no reason, the outbound queue on one of our hosting servers was piling up with messages even though our internet pipe was 100% up.  So, I started doing some testing......we had absolutely zero name resolution for remote hosts.   At one point, the queue was almost backed up enough to fill up the drive on the server.  There were over 3 million outgoing messages that had no way to get out because the remote host names couldn't be resolved, because of this DNS attack.


Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the queue started emptying and the messages started going out.  The whole episode lasted about 45 minutes


It was crazy 


I had one of my engineers research it and he came up with this article.

[Ben_Jamin]

That is crazy. At our expense their fighting a war that may end pretty badly for everyone.

[TioJorge]

Interesting... hopefully it doesn't affect the day-to-day, run-of-the-mill users..

[kirksnosehair]

It's been up and down.  We have an application that monitors a bunch of stuff, name resolution is among those items.  It provides trending over time.  You can actually see when the attack is scaling up and down because the amount of time it takes to resolve remote host names has been fluctuating pretty wildly for the last few days.  Usually it's pretty steady.


I don't think many average end-users will notice the effects, but it might take a bit longer for email messages to reach their destinations.

[wkiml]

we have been having system problems all day...forwarded the story to my IT team

[kirksnosehair]

Here's another one, from CNN.com


https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/tech/massive-internet-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2