Attack on Managed DNS Firm Hobbles Twitter, Spotify, Others
ID: 8b859a43-a204-5190-9a67-b797d98d60ff
STIX ID: report--8b859a43-a204-5190-9a67-b797d98d60ff
Feed Name: Security Ledger
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A sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Dyn's managed DNS disrupted resolution for major services (Twitter, Spotify, CNN). The report outlines the incident timeline, explains DNS architecture and how DDoS against authoritative DNS can cause widespread outages, and discusses the possibility of Mirai-like IoT botnets being involved while noting attribution and concrete indicators remain unclear.
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