Dyn Cites Mirai Botnet as One Source of the Attack

In a statement regarding the DDoS attack on 10/21/2016, Dyn confirmed the sophisticated, highly distributed attack involved 10s of millions of IP addresses. The company said its preliminary forensic analysis, with help of analysis from Flashpoint and Akamai, indicates that the attack originated across multiple attack vectors and internet locations. One source of the traffic for the attacks were devices infected by the Mirai botnet.  Dyn observed...

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Flashpoint Links Dyn DDoS Attack to Mirai IoT Botnet

Flashpoint confirmed that some of the infrastructure responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS were botnets compromised by Mirai malware. Mirai botnets were previously used in DDoS attacks against security researcher Brian Krebs’ blog “Krebs On Security” and French internet service and hosting provider OVH. Mirai malware targets Internet of Things (IoT) devices like routers, digital video records (DVRs), and...

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Dyn Managed DNS Hit by Major DDoS Attack

Dyn, which provides cloud-based Internet Performance Management and traffic steering to major websites, including Twitter, Zappos, Red Hat, BT, CNBC and Zillow, experienced a major DDoS was impacting its Managed DNS customers in its US East region. On its status update site, Dyn noted that it began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21st-Friday 2016 against its Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Impacted websites...

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Ericsson's Revenue Drops 14% YoY

Ericsson reported Q3 net sales of SEK 51.1 billion down 14% from a year ago for comparable units.  The drop was mainly driven by segment Networks where reported sales declined by 19%. Gross margin declined to 28.3% (33.9%) YoY following lower mobile broadband capacity sales, a higher share of services sales and lower sales in segment Networks. "The negative industry trends from the first half of 2016 have further accelerated, impacting Q3...

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TE SubCom Selected for MAREA Submarine Cable

TE SubCom will served as the system supply partner for the new MAREA submarine cable across the Atlantic Ocean, which is backed by Facebook and Microsoft. TE SubCom said it has completed the route survey and begun manufacture of the system at its facility in Newington, New Hampshire. The parties are on track to begin laying cable using TE SubCom’s cable installation ships next year, with a scheduled completion date of October 2017. “TE SubCom strives...

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