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DDOS is trending on Twitter now. Could it be an attack?
by AznHisoka 6y ago
DDOS is trending on Twitter now. Could it be an attack?
- vsareto 6y agoThat doesn't seem credible yet https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1272647109833940992 https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/12726471098339409...
- adrianpike 6y agoUnlikely that an attack would manifest itself in this way. I think it's an SS7 screwup since it seems that signaling is mostly what's gone pear shaped.
- LinuxBender 6y agoSS7 would not affect website uptime. All the carrier websites are having issues. [edit] As others have pointed out, if b-number routing is failing, then their support sites would be flooded with people checking their account. So maybe the subscribers are in effect overloading the sites. That would make sense.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoCouldn't that just be the result of tens of millions of people simultaneously trying to contact support?
- LinuxBender 6y agoCould be. With SS7 outages, first things you would see is b-number analysis failing (call routing) and SMS text messages failing.
- londons_explore 6y agoAs soon as there is a service outage, all the users go to the carrier website to try to complain or log in to check if they've paid their bill, etc. A website designed for most users to visit once per year when their contract expires likely won't scale to everyone visiting in an hour...
- LinuxBender 6y agoIt's a sound theory. Hopefully one of the carriers owns up to their site not having capacity and/or b-number routing flub.
- jaifraic 6y agoSo... it actually is a DDoS attack ;)
- wybiral 6y agoPeople are fearmongering and sharing pictures of DDoS activity out of context. There are always attacks like that going on in the background, it doesn't mean that's the cause.