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Rio 2016: DoS attack made on Swimming Australia website after Mack Horton’s drug remarks

Swimming Australia’s website has been hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack. The ABC has learned the site is operating in an “under attack” mode in the wake of Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton’s comments about his Chinese competitor Sun Yang being a drug cheat. While the site has continued to operate, it has deployed software to check the veracity of every browser accessing the page to ensure they are legitimate. Horton’s social media has been bombarded with hundreds of thousands of negative comments from China. Swimming Australia is not commenting publicly but it is understood the attack has been referred to the Government for investigation. Security analyst Marco Ostini from AusCERT, a non-profit organisation that protects organisations from cyber attacks, said DoS attempts were extremely common. “It’s actually a very difficult problem to put a number on,” he said. “It’s certain though … based on all malicious metrics on the internet, it’s increasing.” Mr Ostini said without seeing the internet traffic and logs associated with Swimming Australia’s page it was hard to work out what had happened, but he doubted it was a high-level attack. “I’d be really surprised if it was [China] state-sanctioned attackers causing trouble for Swimming Australia,” he said. “It’s possibly more likely just a large amount of interested people who are expressing themselves in possibly posting comments [on the website].” Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-11/rio-2016-dos-attack-made-swimming-australia-website/7721848

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The Hidden Role of DDoS in Ransomware Attacks

Dave Larson offers advice for organisations wishing to protect themselves from the latest types of cyber-extortion Ransom demands and DDoS attacks are now, more than ever, being used together in inventive new techniques to extract money from victims. This ranges from hackers threatening to launch a DDoS attack unless a ransom is paid, to the recent reports of a multi-layered cyber-attack combining ransomware and DDoS attacks in one. But what is often less understood is the way that sub-saturating DDoS attacks are regularly being used as a precursor to ransomware incursion. Because these attacks are so short – typically less than five minutes in duration – these low-bandwidth DDoS attacks allow hackers to test for vulnerabilities within a network, which can later be exploited through ransomware. Here we outline some of the typical methods of cyber-extortion involving DDoS attacks, and explain why automatic DDoS mitigation is such a key defence in the ongoing battle against ransomware. Extortion is one of the oldest tricks in the criminal’s book, and one of the easiest ways for today’s cyber-criminals to turn a profit. As a result, there are a significant number of techniques that hackers will utilise to try and extract money from victims. One of the most common is DDoS ransom attacks, where attackers threaten to launch a DDoS attack against a victim unless a ransom is paid. These attacks can affect any internet-facing organisation and are often indiscriminate in nature. In May, the City of London Police warned of a new wave of ransom-driven DDoS attacks orchestrated by Lizard Squad, in which UK businesses were told that they would be targeted by a DDoS attack if they refused to pay five bitcoins, equivalent to just over £1,500. According to the results of a recent survey, 80 percent of IT security professionals believe that their organisation will be threatened with a DDoS attack in the next 12 months – and almost half (43 percent) believe their organisation might pay such a demand. But despite the prevalence of DDoS ransom attacks, and its longevity as a technique, nothing elicits the same degree of alarm among security teams as the current threat of ransomware. This type of malware is estimated to have cost US businesses as much as US$ 18 million (£13.7 million) in a single year, and has already claimed a string of high-profile victims including hospitals and public bodies. Earlier this month, European police agency Europol launched a new ransomware advice service aimed at slowing down its exponential rise. But when it comes to protecting your organisation’s data from being encrypted and lost, most advice focuses on recovery, rather than prevention. This includes having a good backup policy, which ideally involves serialising data so that multiple versions of the files are available, in case newer versions have been encrypted. But what about taking a more proactive stance? We know that ransomware is usually delivered via email, inviting respondents to click on a link to download malware. Typically the themes of these emails include shipping notices from delivery companies or an invitation to open other documents that the recipient supposedly needs to review. It’s true that many of these emails are sent opportunistically and on a blanket basis to a wide number of potential victims. But we are also seeing an increase in more targeted attacks, designed to gain access to a specific organisation’s networks. After all, attacking a larger, more high-profile organisation would normally command a higher potential ransom reward, so hackers are investing an increasing amount of time researching specific victims and locating their vulnerabilities – usually through a variety of automated scanning or penetration techniques, many of which are increasingly incorporating the use of sub-saturating, low-bandwidth DDoS vectors. Most people associate the term ‘DDoS’ with system downtime, because the acronym stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”. But DDoS threats are constantly evolving, and many hackers now use them as a sophisticated means of targeting, profiling, and infiltrating networks. Short, sub-saturating DDoS attacks are typically less than five minutes in duration, meaning that they can easily slip under the radar without being detected by some DDoS mitigation systems. Five minutes may seem like an insignificant amount of time – but an appropriately crafted attack may only need a few seconds to take critical security infrastructure, like firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) offline. While IT teams are distracted by investigating what might be causing these momentary outages on the network, hackers can map the floor plan of their target’s environment, and determine any weak points and vulnerabilities that can later be exploited through other methods, such as ransomware. It is only by deploying an in-line DDoS mitigation system that is always-on, and can detect and mitigate all DDoS attacks as they occur, that security teams can protect themselves from hackers fully understanding all possible vulnerabilities in their networks. While these short DDoS attacks might sound harmless – in that they don’t cause extended periods of downtime – IT teams who choose to ignore them are effectively leaving their doors wide open for ransomware attacks or other more serious intrusions. To keep up with the growing sophistication and organisation of well-equipped and well-funded threat actors, it’s essential that organisations maintain a comprehensive visibility across their networks to spot and resolve any potential incursions as they arise. Source: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/the-hidden-role-of-ddos-in-ransomware-attacks/article/514229/

What are the DoS and DDoS attacks that brought down the census?

Experts believe that the electronic assault on the census site was a DDoS attack – a kind of electronic army that attacks an enemy’s website on every flank using millions of computers as soldiers. About 2000 of these attacks occur every day across the world, said DigitalAttackMap, a website that monitors such attacks. Only days ago, this type of attack shut down US Olympic swimming Michael Phelps’ commercial website, SCMagazine , which specialises in IT security, said. It said the attack happened fresh after Phelps’ gold medal-winning performance in the men’s 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the Rio Games. One hacking expert told Time magazine that any celebrity or high-profile site should expect these attacks. “Each celebrity on our target list will be either hacked or DDoSed,” a representative of hacking group New World Hackers said. Xbox, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the BBC have been among New World Hackers’ recent targets. DigitalAttackMap, a joint venture between Google Ideas and network security firm Arbor Networks, said these attacks had hit online gaming sites, newspapers and banks; Greek banks were crippled this year. Yet its site doesn’t show a DDoS attack on the ABS census site on Tuesday, bolstering claims by some that the attack didn’t take place. The DigitalAttackMap tracks DDoS attacks on a daily basis. The red flare over Brazil shows a serious DDoS attack. Photo: DigitalAttackMap.com The Australian Bureau of Statistics said its census site was hit four times by denial of service (DoS) attacks. A DoS is a broad term for attacks that attempt to crash an online system so that users cannot access it. Some IT and cybersecurity professionals speculated that a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was to blame. A DDoS is a type of DoS attack in which hackers attempt to crash a system by flooding it with bots – or Trojan – accounts. DigitalAttackMap said attackers cripple websites, such as the ABS’ census site, by building networks of infected computers, known as botnets, by spreading malicious software through emails, websites and social media. Once infected, these machines can be controlled remotely, without their owners’ knowledge, and used like an army to launch an attack against any target. Some botnets are millions of machines strong. DigitalAttackMap says these botnets can generate huge floods of traffic to overwhelm a target. “These floods can be generated in multiple ways, such as sending more connection requests than a server can handle, or having computers send the victim huge amounts of random data to use up the target’s bandwidth. Some attacks are so big they can max out a country’s international cable capacity.” Adding to many people’s fears about the security of the census website before the attack, the information gained from these sites during an attack is sold on online marketplaces that specialise in information gained from these DDoS attacks, DigitalAttackMap said. “Using these underground markets, anyone can pay a nominal fee to silence websites they disagree with or disrupt an organisation’s online operations. A week-long DDoS attack, capable of taking a small organisation offline, can cost as little as $150,” the website said. Source: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/what-are-the-dos-and-ddos-attacks-that-brought-down-the-census-20160809-gqowwp.html

Census 2016 site falls to DDoS attack: ABS

As widely expected, the Census web site fell over last night — but the ABS has said it was with a little help from external players. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has continued its run of outs, scoring an own goal in the Census main event last night, after the agency claimed the site crashed thanks to four denial of service attacks. “The 2016 online Census form was subject to four Denial of Service attacks of varying nature & severity,” the ABS said on Twitterthis morning. “The first three caused minor disruption but more than 2 million Census forms were successfully submitted and safely stored. After the fourth attack, just after 7:30pm, the ABS took the precaution of closing down the system to ensure the integrity of the data.” “Steps have been taken during the night to remedy these issues, and we can reassure Australians that their data are secure at the ABS.” The agency said it would provide an update at 9am Wednesday. The ABS has launched a joint investigation with the nation’s defence intelligence agency into the assault, which ramped up on Tuesday evening as most of the population was going online to complete the survey. “It was an attack,” chief statistician David Kalisch told ABC radio on Wednesday. “It was quite clear it was malicious.” The source of the attacks is unknown but Kalisch said they came from overseas. On Tuesday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said that once the Census is completed, the Australian government needs to discuss with parliamentthe increasing retention of names and address data, and the reasons it is being kept. “I think we need to have a good, long look at the whole process to make sure we’re not asking for information we don’t need,” he said. “And to reassure ourselves that what information that is stored, is stored securely.” The Opposition Leader said politicians committed to boycotting the Census were grandstanding. The intrusions will put a spot light on the federal government’s AU$240 million cyber security strategy and the security of government resources online. The ABS confirmed last week that its IBM-developed online Census forms would not be able to handle names with accents or ligatures. The agency later removed a claim made by it that it was rated by the Australian National Audit Office as being in its “Cyber Secure Zone”. Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/census-2016-site-falls-to-ddos-attack/

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About 170 DDoS attacks were launched on the government bodies of Ukraine in last six months.

A representative of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine told this to Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. “About 15,000 events of information security events, including 170 DDoS attacks, were launched on the government bodies of Ukraine in last six months,” the representative said. According to him, “14 central executive authorities have been already connected to the State Centre for Cyber Protection, and the works to connect another 12 bodies are ongoing.” Source: http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/2062435-170-ddos-attacks-launched-on-ukrainian-government-bodies-in-six-months.html

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If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect

Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyber attack on your country. All government data has been destroyed, taking out healthcare records, birth certificates, social care records and so much more. The transport system isn’t working, traffic lights are blank, immigration is in chaos and all tax records have disappeared. The internet has been reduced to an error message and daily life as you know it has halted. This might sound fanciful but don’t be so sure. When countries declare war on one another in future, this sort of disaster might be the opportunity the enemy is looking for. The internet has brought us many great things but it has made us more vulnerable. Protecting against such futuristic violence is one of the key challenges of the 21st century. Strategists know that the most fragile part of internet infrastructure is the energy supply. The starting point in serious cyber warfare may well be to trip the power stations which power the data centres involved with the core routing elements of the network. Back-up generators and uninterruptible power supplies might offer protection, but they don’t always work and can potentially be hacked. In any case, backup power is usually designed to shut off after a few hours. That is enough time to correct a normal fault, but cyber attacks might require backup for days or even weeks. William Cohen, the former US secretary of defence, recently predicted such a major outage would cause large-scale economic damage and civil unrest throughout a country. In a war situation, this could be enough to bring about defeat. Janet Napolitano, a former secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, believes the American system is not well enough protected to avoid this. Denial of service An attack on the national grid could involve what is called a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. These use multiple computers to flood a system with information from many sources at the same time. This could make it easier for hackers to neutralise the backup power and tripping the system. DDoS attacks are also a major threat in their own right. They could overload the main network gateways of a country and cause major outages. Such attacks are commonplace against the private sector, particularly finance companies. Akamai Technologies, which controls 30% of internet traffic, recently said these are the most worrying kind of attack and becoming ever more sophisticated. Akamai recently monitored a sustained attack against a media outlet of 363 gigabits per second (Gbps) – a scale which few companies, let alone a nation, could cope with for long. Networks specialist Verisign reports a shocking 111% increase in DDoS attacks per year, almost half of them over 10 Gbps in scale – much more powerful than previously. The top sourcesare Vietnam, Brazil and Columbia. Number of attacks Verisign Scale of attacks Verisign Most DDoS attacks swamp an internal network with traffic via the DNS and NTP servers that provide most core services within the network. Without DNS the internet wouldn’t work, but it is weak from a security point of view. Specialists have been trying to come up with a solution, but building security into these servers to recognise DDoS attacks appears to mean re-engineering the entire internet. How to react If a country’s grid were taken down by an attack for any length of time, the ensuing chaos would potentially be enough to win a war outright. If instead its online infrastructure were substantially compromised by a DDoS attack, the response would probably go like this: Phase one: Takeover of network : the country’s security operations centre would need to take control of internet traffic to stop its citizens from crashing the internal infrastructure. We possibly saw this in the failed Turkish coup a few weeks ago, where YouTube and social media went completely offline inside the country. Phase two: Analysis of attack : security analysts would be trying to figure out how to cope with the attack without affecting the internal operation of the network. Phase three: Observation and large-scale control : the authorities would be faced with countless alerts about system crashes and problems. The challenge would be to ensure only key alerts reached the analysts trying to overcome the problems before the infrastructure collapsed. A key focus would be ensuring military, transport, energy, health and law enforcement systems were given the highest priority, along with financial systems. Phase four. Observation and fine control : by this stage there would be some stability and the attention could turn to lesser but important alerts regarding things like financial and commercial interests. Phase five. Coping and restoring : this would be about restoring normality and trying to recover damaged systems. The challenge would be to reach this phase as quickly as possible with the least sustained damage. State of play If even the security-heavy US is concerned about its grid, the same is likely to be true of most countries. I suspect many countries are not well drilled to cope with sustained DDoS, especially given the fundamental weaknesses in DNS servers. Small countries are particularly at risk because they often depend on infrastructure that reaches a central point in a larger country nearby. The UK, it should be said, is probably better placed than some countries to survive cyber warfare. It enjoys an independent grid and GCHQ and the National Crime Agency have helped to encourage some of the best private sector security operations centres in the world. Many countries could probably learn a great deal from it. Estonia, whose infrastructure was disabled for several days in 2007 following a cyber attack, is now looking at moving copies of government data to the UK for protection. Given the current level of international tension and the potential damage from a major cyber attack, this is an area that all countries need to take very seriously. Better to do it now rather than waiting until one country pays the price. For better and worse, the world has never been so connected. Source: http://theconversation.com/if-two-countries-waged-cyber-war-on-each-another-heres-what-to-expect-63544

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DDoS Attacks: Cybercriminals Are More Homegrown Than You Think

Researchers from the FBI and a private security company say many of the distributed denial of service attacks emanate from the West. BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – The stereotype of the seedy cybercriminal from Russia or Eastern Europe may no longer be valid. FBI agent Elliott Peterson told Black Hat attendees this morning that when it comes to the most recent DDoS attacks, the vast majority come from North America, Western Europe and Israel. And many are 16 to 17-years of age or in their mid-20s. “Many use their nicknames on Skype or Twitter and they are heavy users of social media,” said Peterson. Peterson and Andre Correa, cofounder of Malware Patrol, shared much of their recent research on DDoS attacks at a briefing session here this morning. They focused much of their research on amplification and reflection attacks, booters/stressers and IoT and Linux-based botnets. Peterson said the amplification and reflection attacks get a good rate of return: a hacker can send one byte and get 200 in return. The bad threat actors now sell amplification lists that criminals can easily buy over commercial web interfaces. The booters and stressers are inexpensive, they cost roughly $5 to $20 a month and require very little technical knowledge for the criminal to deploy. And on the IoT front, botnets are creating scanning hosts for default credentials or vulnerabilities. A bot is then automatically downloaded and executed. Over the past several months, Peterson and Correa have compiled more than 8 million records. They said last month, the leading DDoS type was SSDP at Port 1900. “This was kind of interesting since most people may think that NTPs were the leading cause of DDoSs, but they scored much lower because many NTP servers have been patched of late,” said Correa. Peterson said some of the criminals are just total scam artists. “They just take your money and don’t do the attack,” he said. “On the other hand, there are also some sophisticated players offering turnkey DDoS services. They provide attack scripts, amp lists and good customer service, sometimes up to six people on hand. Other findings: most attacks are in the 1-5 Gbps range, with the highest DDoS observed at 30 Gbps. Source: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ddos-attacks-cybercriminals-are-more-homegrown-than-you-think-/d/d-id/1326508

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Cybersecurity: Financial Institutions Fret over DDoS Attacks

Financial institutions, especially the banks, are getting more worried about the increasing rate of a new cyber attack called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), that has caused huge financial losses running into billions of naira to banks. Financial institutions expressed worries about further loss of funds to DDoS attacks at a security forum organised by MainOne and Radware in Lagos this week and called for technology solutions that would address the threat. During a panel session, Head, Infrastructure Services at Skye Bank, Mr. Tagbo Nnoli, said banks suffered major attacks last year from DDoS attacks on banks and that since then, the banks started seeking solutions to address the issue. Aside DDoS attacks, Nnoli said banks also suffered attacks from phishing and social engineering last year, resulting to huge financial losses. Head, Industry Security Services, Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBBS), Mr. Olufemi Fadairo, who confirmed that banks suffered huge financial losses to cyber attacks last year, however said the rate of losses due to online attacks, were beginning to reduce in 2016, following proactive measures taken by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the NIBSS to address financial losses to cyber attacks. According to Fadairo, “NIBSS tries to protect organisations and in the past five years, there has been improvement on financial security. We do benchmarking to find out any disruption of a normal pattern of an organisation. By January 2016, we discussed about DDoS attacks on banks where 63 per cent of banks said such attacks would increase, if not mitigated on time.” Following the threat, we decided to focus on data companies like MainOne that provides data solution for the financial sector, Fadairo said. The Chief Information Security Officer at MainOne, Mr. Chidi Iwe, however raised the hopes of financial institutions at the forum, when he revealed that MainOne had partnered RadWare, a global security company to mitigate DDoS attacks in the country’s financial sector, by redirecting organisation’s traffic to the MainOne DDoS mitigation platform, from where it keeps organisation data fully protected at all times and maintaining the normal operations of organisations on-premises infrastructure. He said the service could detect and mitigate zero-day attack within 18 seconds. According to Iwe, over 50 per cent of enterprise companies globally, suffered DDoS attacks at the end of 2015, and Nigerian businesses are growing in recent yeas and the focus of attacks is gradually shifting to the Nigerian space. Although he said most attacks were not reported publicly in the past, but that there has been over 600 per cent growth in reporting attacks in Nigeria in recent times, based on CBN regulation. Two weeks ago, there was DDoS Attacks in Nigeria. Attacks have caused organisations over $500 billion in recent years, and DDoS attacks are predicted to be on the rise, Iwe said. He however assured financial institutions that the security solution service agreement it signed with Radware in 2016, would address insecurity issues with DDoS attacks. MainOne solution therefore monitors DDoS attacks and create alert for the company using the solution, he said, while listing the benefits of the solution to include online reporting, which allows customers to log online to find out what the trends are. The MainOne solution also offers training for customers in partnership with Radware to boost customer experience. He said capital expenditure CAPEX and operational expenditure OPEX, are completely eliminated by the solution. The Security Solution Architect at Radware, Mr. Eran Danino, while explaining how DDoS operates, said it first attacks firewalls, destroys it before replicating itself into other components. He said most organisations are not ready to mitigate DDoS attack because they either have saturated internet pipes, or they lack the security skills to detect and mitigate attacks. “What we do at Radware is to mitigate the attacks, just as the attackers change their attacking plans regularly,” Danino said. He explained that there was need for organisations to choose the best protection and draw up a checklist to find out the assets that must be protected first. He said Radware uses two approaches to mitigate DDoS attacks, through hybrid solution and full cloud service solution by protecting data from the cloud. Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/08/04/cybersecurity-financial-institutions-fret-over-ddos-attacks/

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Overwatch,’ ‘Warcraft’ Servers Sidelined By DDoS Attack From Hacking Group PoodleCorp

Blizzard was hit with a DDoS attack that made its servers inaccessible, disrupting gameplay for Battle.net users on Aug. 2. Someone from Blizzard’s customer support team posted on the Battle.net forums to acknowledge the attack, saying network engineers are on the case, working to address the issue. The problem has since been resolved, but according to a tweet from Blizzard’s North American customer support team, reports of World Server Down in World of Warcraft are being investigated. In a tweet, hacker group PoodleCorp claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack. It’s not clear who is PoodleCorp exactly, but some Battle.net users have surmised that some of the hacking group’s members could be players who were recently banned from Overwatch , and thus now out for revenge. Whoever they are, PoodleCorp appears to be a busy group. A day before the DDoS attack on Blizzard, the hackers apparently took on Pokémon GO , marking their second takedown of the mobile game after first attacking it on July 16. Pokémon GO servers were also down for several hours on July 17, but OurMine, another hacking group, took the credit for that attack. In an interview via Twitter DM, PoodleCorp’s leader, @xotehpoodle, told Mic that they targeted Pokémon GO because it’s popular right now. Also, they’re doing what they’re doing because nobody can stop them. “We do it because we can, nobody can stop us and we just like to cause chaos,” said the hacking group’s head, who added that their botnet is worth more than Niantic. Over the summer, PoodleCorp also claimed responsibility for hacking League of Legends and popular YouTubers. Earlier in June, Blizzard also experienced a major outage as another DDoS attack took out its servers. Twitter user AppleJ4ck, said to be tied to hacking group Lizard Squad, claimed responsibility for the attack and mocked Blizzard, saying the attack was part of some “preparations.” As PoodleCorp has claimed responsibility for the most recent outage, does that mean that there’s more to come given what AppleJ4ck’s been preparing for has not come to fruition? In the past, Lizard Squad had been connected to disruptions on Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network. When angry gamers swarmed the hackers’ Twitter accounts, PoodleCorp and AppleJ4ck replied with similar messages, saying anyone who gets upset over a game should get a life and that they’re doing everyone a favor by knocking them offline. Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/172361/20160803/overwatch-warcraft-servers-sidelined-by-ddos-attack-from-hacking-group-poodlecorp.htm

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123-Reg drowns in ongoing DDoS tsunami

Data centre target of attack of 30+ Gbps Beleaguered web host 123-Reg has suffered a “huge scale” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to its data centre – knocking the Brit outfit’s website offline and a number of users’ services. The attack began this morning and is still ongoing but no performance-related issues have been reported since the traffic was rerouted. The Register understands that the outfit experienced a DDoS attack of 30-plus Gbps to its data centre, with its protection systems kicking in within seconds of the attack being detected. Consequently the business redirected traffic through its secondary “DDoS protection platform” in Germany, which doubled its capacity. No servers were offline, although customers experienced intermittent connection issues such as our website, control panel, email or websites. A 123-Reg spokeswoman said: “At about 10:10am we received a huge scale DDoS attack to our data centre. “Our protection systems kicked in immediately and the attack was contained by 10:40am. We apologise for any intermittent connection issues to our services that some of our customers may have experienced during this time.” Back in November, internet provider Eclipse was hit by a DDoS attack. ® Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/02/123reg_suffers/