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The company states that the attackers only breached a small number of accounts during the credential-stuffing attacks.
The increasing DDoS attacks and their impact led the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to release an advisory about these incidents.
DISH later confirmed that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack, with BleepingComputer first to report that the Black Basta ransomware gang was behind the attack.
While the Operation Triangulation attacks did not impact many devices, it could be one of the most sophisticated iOS attacks seen to date.
While it's still unknown who is behind the attacks, their sophistication has led cybersecurity researchers to believe that a government-sponsored hacking group is behind them.
The attacks were soon claimed by the Clop ransomware gang, who previously launched similar attacks through zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA and GoAnywhere.