{"id":53582,"date":"2016-10-21T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=53582"},"modified":"2025-08-15T02:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:49:49","slug":"dyn-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/internet-security\/dyn-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Websites Twitter, Spotify, Netflix Shut Down by DDoS Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re no strangers to Armageddon-scenario movies, but today a real disaster hit the internet. Using brute-force tactics that flood key elements of the internet\u2019s structure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2016\/10\/21\/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter\/92507806\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cybercriminals managed to shut down<\/a> a variety of popular websites. The resulting chaos essentially closed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-cyber-idUSKCN12L1ME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire East Coast of the U.S.<\/a>, before spreading to other parts of the country and overseas, from a section of the web. Big names such as Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, and more count among those affected.\u00a0The natural question is \u201c<em>How did this happen<\/em>?\u201d It happened due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/consumer\/denial-service-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Distributed Denial of Service attack<\/a> \u2014 or DDoS for short.<\/p>\n<p>While powerful tools may seem miles ahead of the average cyber crook\u2019s ventures, DDoS attacks aren\u2019t incredibly complicated. Plainly speaking, these tools are available to any cybercriminal wanting to get their hands on them.<\/p>\n<h2>DDos<\/h2>\n<p>So let\u2019s cover the term \u201cDDoS.\u201d A Distributed Denial of Service is when perpetrators flood a website with so much traffic that it shuts the site down. Essentially, think of a traffic jam so bad that nobody can enter onto the freeway. Such attacks require a huge amount of devices to succeed \u2014 we\u2019re not talking about dozens, we\u2019re talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3123672\/security\/largest-ddos-attack-ever-delivered-by-botnet-of-hijacked-iot-devices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to a million<\/a>. To really understand the scale of these attacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/consumer\/consumer-threat-notices\/visualizing-a-ddos-cyber-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch these videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now how do criminals get a hold of so many devices? By slipping malicious codes onto devices that aren\u2019t secured \u2014 or are using factory-set default passwords \u2014 cybercriminals can create an army of hijacked devices from across the globe. This is known as a botnet. And with all of today\u2019s connected-devices, crooks are finding it easier to increase their botnets\u2019 ranks. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/consumer\/consumer-threat-notices\/botnets-use-iot-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">modern kitchen toaster<\/a> can be vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u2019re still waiting for details from this incident. We\u2019re still unsure which devices or criminals were involved. But one crucial fact is worthy of note: this attack didn\u2019t hit websites one-by-one. To create wide-spread damage, perpetrators targeted something that every website relies on: a Domain Name System (DNS) service.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re aware or not, the DNS is used every time a browser fires up. Think of it as the address book for the internet. Computers don\u2019t speak the same language as humans. So when you type in \u201cwww.netflix.com,\u201d a DNS provider has to first translate those letters into numbers which computers understand. When you want to see a website, this is how your browser finds the right servers to connect to.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re ready to tackle the original question: <em>how did an attack of such scale happen?<\/em> Ultimately, cybercriminals targeted a large DNS provider. Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2016\/10\/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the victim was Dyn<\/a>. They support many of your favorite websites. Think of Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, PayPal, and Reddit. By launching a DDoS attack on the DNS provider, crooks blocked people\u2019s browsers from accessing the servers of many popular websites \u2014 the very infrastructure of the internet itself was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s news comes as a great shock. The truth is, we haven\u2019t seen anything at quite this scale before. Think about it: an entire region of the United States was blocked from accessing parts of the internet. So if a cybersecurity wake-up call was needed, this is it. In my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevegrobman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adGrobman<\/a>\u2019s words, \u201cthis is a reminder of how effective an attack on one can be an effective attack on many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay on top of the latest consumer and mobile security threats by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/garyjdavis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">following me<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McAfee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@McAfee<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, and \u2018Like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McAfee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43387\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1.jpg\" alt=\"gary\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/gary1-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re no strangers to Armageddon-scenario movies, but today a real disaster hit the internet. 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