Another Facebook outage, an outpouring of tweets, press articles and an obligatory ATLAS post below. We use ATLAS data to graph Facebook (AS32934) traffic with 80 ISPs around the world between 5pm September 22 and 5pm EDT today. You can see Facebook traffic plummet around 1:30pm and return shortly after 4pm. From a quick glance [...]
Earlier this month, security researchers at Damballa published their findings regarding a new commercial DDoS service called IMDDOS. In addition to observing a number of samples of IMDDOS bots in our malware analysis sandboxes, we have also seen a significant number of samples recently from a new DDoS family which appears to be closely related [...]
More political attacks seen around the world, this time in Malaysia. Voices that appear to be critical to the Malaysian government have had their websites, used for communicating with the outside world, attacked in a flurry of DDoS attacks. We’ve been investigating these and have sent information to the CERT team in Malaysia for assistance [...]