The biggest attack in history slows Internet

The biggest attack in history slows Internet

Battered basic infrastructure services important consequences worldwide

Internet worldwide has slowed due to a cyber attack in which security experts say is the largest ever conducted. A quarrel between a group that fights spam emails and a posting company, which sparked retaliatory attacks that are slow functioning of basic infrastructure.

Some popular services as “Netflix” are already affected and experts fear that the slowdown may include online banking and email systems.

Five national police forces are investigating the attacks. “Spamhaus”, a non-governmental organization with offices in London and Geneva, intended to help service providers to filter email spam emails. To achieve this goal, the group lists the addresses reported as distribution of harmful emails and a list of servers from these emails originate. Finally, “Spamhous” blocked the company’s servers “Cyberbunker”, a group posting in the Netherlands, who declares that he accepts hostojë every page except the pages with content pedophile and terrorist.

Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claims to be the spokesman of “Cyverbunger”, said that “Spamhaus” is abusing his position and should not be allowed to decide “what is published on the internet and what not.”

“Spamhaus” has raised the conclusion that “Cyberbunger” in cooperation with “criminal gangs” of Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack. “Cyberbunker” did not respond to requests for comment.

Steve Linford, executive director of “Spamhaus”, said the size of the attack are unprecedented. “We were under cyber attack for more than a week,” he said. “However we proceed to function and they have not been able to block us. Our engineers are doing a tremendous job to keep us in place. ”

Linford told the BBC that the attack is being investigated by five national police forces around the world. The attackers used a tactic known as Denial of Service DDoS, which bombs target with false claims, which slows or blocks the attack site.

In this case, the Internet Address System to Spamhous was attacked. This is the system that performs the conversion of numerical data used to address the world of internet websites names.

Reported that the strength of this latest attack will suffice to block an Internet service throughout government.

“If the website targets the government of England, it would break immediately,” commented an expert on the BBC. “These attacks mark the peak at 300 gb / s).”

Usually the aim is to hit a bank, used up to 50 GB / s.

The attack damaged in web services worldwide, says prof. Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at the University Surrei in the UK.

“You have to imagine the Internet as a highway. They are trying to put more traffic on a given node and this causes problems across the highway, “he said.

Group “Spamhaus” said he was able to withstand the attack because of its infrastructure is distributed in several countries. The group is supported by some of the largest companies in the world of internet, which like its services to identify the source of undesirable materials, such as spam emails, which are used by criminals to spread false information, collecting data personal email addresses or to distribute viruses or speculative advertisement.