On 25 October 2016, US President Obama stated that the investigators still had no idea who carried out the cyberattack.
Mirai is designed to brute-force the security on an IoT device, allowing it to be controlled remotely.Ĭybersecurity investigator Brian Krebs noted that the source code for Mirai had been released onto the Internet in an open-source manner some weeks prior, which made the investigation of the perpetrator more difficult. Dyn stated that they were receiving malicious requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. The attribution of the attack to the Mirai botnet had been previously reported by BackConnect Inc., another security firm. ĭyn disclosed that, according to business risk intelligence firm FlashPoint and Akamai Technologies, the attack was a botnet coordinated through numerous Internet of Things-enabled (IoT) devices, including cameras, residential gateways, and baby monitors, that had been infected with Mirai malware. Barbara Simons, a member of the advisory board of the United States Election Assistance Commission, said such attacks could affect electronic voting for overseas military or civilians. Dyn's chief strategist said in an interview that the assaults on the company's servers were very complex and unlike everyday DDoS attacks. No group of hackers claimed responsibility during or in the immediate aftermath of the attack. The US Department of Homeland Security started an investigation into the attacks, according to a White House source. White House spokesperson Josh Earnest responds on October 21, 2016, the day of the attack The activities are believed to have been executed through a botnet consisting of many Internet-connected devices-such as printers, IP cameras, residential gateways and baby monitors-that had been infected with the Mirai malware. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. Īs a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name-when, for instance, entered into a web browser-to its corresponding IP address. The groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility for the attack, but scant evidence was provided. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America.
The DDoS attack on Dyn was a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) on October 21, 2016, targeting systems operated by Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn.
Our first-party cookies include cookies that are strictly necessary, functional cookies, cookies related to analytics/performance and advertising-related cookies.Europe and North America, especially the Eastern United States
In addition to using cookies on our sites, we may also serve our cookies (specifically, our advertising pixel) on third-party sites operated by Reddit advertisers who use our advertising technology. In this Notice, we use the term “cookie” to refer both to cookies and similar technologies.Ĭookies may be set by the site you are visiting (called “first-party cookies”) or by a third party, such as those who provide analytics or advertising services or interactive content on the site (“third-party cookies”). Browsers support cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and pixels) so that a site like Reddit can remember information about your visit and can use the information to improve your experience and to create aggregated anonymized statistics about usage of the site. A cookie is a small text file that a site stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.