

With DDoS attacks, servers are hit with so many requests that they stop responding. Security is tight at these websites and back-up servers strong so for any of them to go down. The incident appears to be affecting large parts of the internet for Dyn's customers in the both the US and UK. Amazon, Spotify, Reddit and Twitter and all reported to be down for millions of users around the world. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.”ĭyn, which provides managed domain name service via its Anycast Network, said on Friday that the DDoS attack has led to popular sites either not loading or being slowed down. Most users, 92 percent, said they were unable to stream music, five.

“Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th - Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. The website Down Detector reports that more than 3,000 users reported issues with the app today, starting at around 13:12 BST. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack notice was posted on Dyn's website: They're all down, right? That's because much of the internet is broken due to one massive cyber attack that is affecting systems run by Dyn, one of the largest providers of internet services in the world. (Pocket-lint) - Check your favourite sites right now, like Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, or Reddit.
