GitHub, Twitter, and a long list of known websites are inaccessible for the majority of users worldwide due to the Distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack on the DNS infrastructure of cloud-based Internet management company Dyn.
In recent weeks, we saw the massive attack of 1Tbps DDoS attack at French company OVH, some experts called it a massive DDoS attack in history. This time the latest victim of the DDoS attack is the renowned Dyn DNS provider.
The long list of affected websites includes Esty, Twitter, GitHub, Spotify, PagerDuty, SoundCloud, Shopify, Airbnb, Heroku, and Intercom.
Called a “global event,” GitHub has informed users its upstream DNS is being affected by the attack. Twitter went offline for roughly 4 hours in total.
According to Dyn, the DDoS attack started at 11:10 UTC and affected its customers in the east of the United States. However, people in Asia and Europe have reported no such issue in their part of regions. According to .
