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Unlikely 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.
by adrianpike 6y ago
Unlikely 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 ;)