Security News > 2016 > October > Dyn DDoS attack post-mortem: Users inadvertently helped (Help Net Security)
2016-10-27 19:25
As StarHub, one of the three major telcos in Singapore, confirmed that they were the latest victim of “intentional and likely malicious distributed denial-of-service attacks” on their DNS system, Dyn has published a short post-mortem of the unprecedented DDoS attacks it suffered on Friday (October 21, 2016). The Dyn DDoS attacks Scott Hilton, EVP of Product at Dyn, confirmed that a Mirai botnet was the primary source of the malicious attack traffic. But the initial … More →
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