Naughty hackers

Witchie

I see those bold hackers are ruining people's night in the USA at the moment.

No netflix and chill and they can't tweet to moan about it.

Internet Attack Spreads

Tauriel

WW3 would break out if it happened on election day!

Summer wind

A shower of bastards Ted.

deco nate

I'm old enough to remember the great boards outage of 2016. .. Fook them teen ddos using arseholes

humanji

deco nate wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember the great boards outage of 2016. .. Fook them teen ddos using arseholes

it got so bad I had to eat my own children. And I didn't even have children.

Mena

That's not a hack, what did they hack? It was a DDOS, simply throwing so much data at systems they cannot process anything and stop responding (admittedly from hacked systems).

Winterlong

A night of no online entertainment will do them no harm. Get them talking to real people!

evolving_doors

Winterlong wrote: »

A night of no online entertainment will do them no harm. Get them talking to real people!

Ya, like us!
Yikes.

Slydice

Well this is a much ... cleaner ... thread than I thought it was gonna be


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Mrmoe

Winterlong wrote: »

A night of no online entertainment will do them no harm. Get them talking to real people!

I knew something was going on when my wife wanted to talk 😂

Fleawuss

The humiliation of it though: hacked by smart toasters and doorbells and light bulbs. In the good old days of the internet you had to have a mainframe to get online. SMH

Harry Palmr

Also took down plenty of sites in the UK including guardian, digitalspy, government sites etc.

BoJack Horseman

The best part of this whole thing is that news agencies get to dust off the ol' library of bizarre hacker stock photos

Fr_Dougal

Mena wrote: »

That's not a hack, what did they hack? It was a DDOS, simply throwing so much data at systems they cannot process anything and stop responding (admittedly from hacked systems).

Yeah but if they hadn't jacket the IoT they wouldn't have been able to throw all that data at the DNS peeps.

Rory28

Mena wrote: »

That's not a hack, what did they hack? It was a DDOS, simply throwing so much data at systems they cannot process anything and stop responding (admittedly from hacked systems).

Maybe not a hack but its probably the most damaging DDOS to date. Whole server farms went down.

I suspect the Ruskies are up to no good.

Alcoheda

You can't blame the Ruskies,
The fact is, theses devices are so insecure that ANY idiot with the will (not necessarily skill or talent)
can own them.
The Mirai IoT botnet propagates itself by bruteforcing telnet passwords using a list containing a grand total of 62 passwords. Admin/Admin, Admin/Password etc..
It could be Russia, but it's just as likely to be some snotty nosed teenager who saw an opportunity to cause a little mischief.
This has more to do with naughty IoT device vendors than naughty hackers.

OldMrBrennan83

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Rory28

Alcoheda wrote: »

You can't blame the Ruskies,
The fact is, theses devices are so insecure that ANY idiot with the will (not necessarily skill or talent)
can own them.
The Mirai IoT botnet propagates itself by bruteforcing telnet passwords using a list containing a grand total of 62 passwords. Admin/Admin, Admin/Password etc..
It could be Russia, but it's just as likely to be some snotty nosed teenager who saw an opportunity to cause a little mischief.
This has more to do with naughty IoT device vendors than naughty hackers.

It was Dyn's servers that got hit though. They exist to stop this **** from happening. It would be some kinda special teenager to be able to do that.

So either russia or 4chan. definitely one of them.
Or gremlins.

Esel

Fleawuss wrote: »

The humiliation of it though: hacked by smart toasters and doorbells and light bulbs. In the good old days of the internet you had to have a mainframe to get online. SMH

Back in the day, a good door frame was all you needed. Vulnerable hinges excepted...

Fleawuss

Esel wrote: »

Back in the day, a good door frame was all you needed. Vulnerable hinges excepted...

I think you're trying to say that to meet the world before the internet you had to leave the house as long as the door would open.

hatrickpatrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

HellSquirrel

The suspicion is that these are test dumps, seeing where the weaknesses are. The other suspicion is that this comes from a highly sophisticated network, not some eejit kid in a basement. The American election is coming up. Early voting has already been affected. Newspapers and online news sources that take interest in the election have been targeted, particularly the so-called "liberal media".

This all seems funny at first, and at the least, nothing more important than mildly inconveniencing some people, but when you think about it more and take into account previous cyber attacks during this election cycle...it all becomes a bit more dubious.

RobertKK

The circuit of the Americas who are hosting the F1 race and music events had their website taken down yesterday with a DDOS attack.

scamalert

its funny people think that its easy to bring down whole networks like that,since them sites are made to cope with millions users daily,and resources needed for such botnets is mind numbing,but at the very core you have maybe few people actually directing attacks,so while its not a hack but level to achieve it is beyond any regular joe who can google some ddos tool.

Esel

It's the Internet Of Thicks (IOT).

Who knew? Brute force = 62 now? Yeah, thicks.

The Fat Controller is laughing in his siding.

StupidLikeAFox

deco nate wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember the great boards outage of 2016. .. Fook them teen ddos using arseholes

I'm old enough to remember when boards used to shut down for half an hour at 4am!