Waves of Cyber Attacks Hit Netflix, Spotify, Twitter
Sometimes DDOS attacks are used to mask intrusions and data theft, if you have a DYN account… etc.
SAN FRANCISCO — Two successive waves of online attacks blocked multiple major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr and Reddit.
The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 am Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 am, but then a fresh wave began.
The cause was a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Internet performance company Dyn that blocked user access to many popular sites standstill.