Beginning early this morning, there has been a widespread denial of service attack against one of the Internet domain name providers. This attack has been affecting many sites and services on the east coast and throughout the US. We have noticed services being disrupted or unavailable to many sites including Box.com, Twitter, Spotify, Paypal, Netflix, CNN and various others.
The company is working to get access to these and other affected sites restored as quickly as possible. I've included an excerpt from the company, DYN, that is being attacked.
For the most up to date information on the status of Box.com, please go to their services dashboard:
Excerpt from Dyn's website and a link to their monitoring page:
https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8
From Dyn.com:
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"This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.
Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.
Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to reach out to our Technical Support Team."
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If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me for more information.
Thank You,
Damian Doyle
Senior Director of Enterprise Infrastructure
DoIT - UMBC
Posted: October 21, 2016, 2:39 PM