Massive DDOS Takes Down Multiple Sites Attacking Public DNS Service

[rcarteraz]

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/363642-websites-outage-ddos-attack/

Source: http://bgr.com/2016/10/21/is-twitter-down-right-now-dyn-ddos/

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

 

So it looks like another major DDOS attack is happening. This time it's causing multiple sites to be down by attacking a public DNS service.

 

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Some of the world's biggest websites including Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify and Shopify are experiencing technical problems due to a reported DDOS attack.

 

 

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“Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure,” major DNS host Dyn wrote in a brief post on its website. “Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.”

It looks like it's affecting some ISP's more than others.

 

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Warner Cable subscribers on the East Coast likely still cannot access Twitter or Reddit, for example.

These attacks are getting crazy

[AlTech]

Damn.

 

Spotify seems to work just fine for me though.......

[PlayStation 2]

to be fair spotify's been very bitchy throughout this whole month for me

[Centurius]

9 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Damn.

 

Spotify seems to work just fine for me though.......

Large dns service providers like Dyn tend to have a decentralized structure, your ISP likely goes via servers that haven't been affected significantly yet.

[TidaLWaveZ]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Damn.

 

Spotify seems to work just fine for me though.......

Dyn reported sites back up by ~9:30am EST

[Suika]

Huh, I wonder if we're going to see a repeat of 2002... and if it will be successful this time...

[PLME888]

Now my Twitter is down... My current location is The Netherlands...

[Pretzel4000]

DynDNS is based out of my city, here's our local paper's story: http://www.unionleader.com/business/cyberattack-on-nh-company-takes-down-twitter-spotify-20161021

[Zambonie]

It's happening again. Spotify and Reddit seems to be working fine, but Twitter is completley dead

[Sidiox]

Can confirm, Twitter is completely down. I also can't reach GitHub it seems

[zMeul]

Twitter is back, at least for me

[Dionyz]

Photobucket is down for me...

 

I dare the person that is DDOSing the servers to do Blizzard. They will get arrested like PoodleCorp.

[Levent]

basically almost every website but google is having a massive spasm on my end, I guess its time to rack up some civ6 game time.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Worst was when xhamsterlive went down tbh

[DudeWazap]

Wow this explains why Twitter and Netflix were acting up. now the pages don't even load. 

[shorty95]

1 hour ago, Dionyz said:

Photobucket is down for me...

 

I dare the person that is DDOSing the servers to do Blizzard. They will get arrested like PoodleCorp.

blizzard.net is currently down....

[Dionyz]

Just now, shorty95 said:

blizzard.net is currently down....

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/ works for me.

[shorty95]

Websites that are currently down for me

• paypal.com
• reddit.com
• github.com
• twitter.com
• indeed.com
• netflix.com (only partially down, website loads, but movies won't load)
• dyn.com
• shopify.com
• soundcloud.com
• Playstation Network

Edited October 21, 2016 by shorty95
added dyn.com, shopify.com, soundcloud.com, Playstation Network

[cmdrhomer]

Great timing for Battlefield 1's Official release, their servers are affected as well

[shorty95]

Just now, Dionyz said:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/ works for me.

wasn't working a second ago for me, must have just been a fluke

[.spider.]

Twitter DNS down for me

Spotify just back up

Netflix's own cdn works but thumbnails and pictures which are hosted on AWS (afaik) don't show up.

And Netflix's www.fast.com doesn't work for me.

[LAwLz]

Is it just the DNSes that are down or are websites going down too? If it's just DNSes then use some other one in the meantime.

[shorty95]

Just now, LAwLz said:

Is it just the DNSes that are down or are websites going down too? If it's just DNSes then use some other one in the meantime.

From what I've been reading, it seems that the attack is DynDns infrastructure which is the DNS provider for most of these large companies. So I believe it's just the DNS

[KuJoe]

Based on the reports it's just DNS servers going down. Time to spin up my private DNS servers and increase the caching time on them to avoid being impacted by this mess.

[NinjaJc01]

2 hours ago, Sidiox said:

Can confirm, Twitter is completely down. I also can't reach GitHub it seems

There was a post about this on r/programming or something, yeah it's just the DNS. I use the google DNS anyway, as I've had some issues with DNS in the past.