Thursday, March 28, 2013

Internet slowed by spammers attack

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A few days ago there has been a decline in Internet traffic on a large scale, due to the slowing the internet service. Happening around the world, and it is not caused by damage to physical infrastructure, but rather the actions of the Hackers and Crackers.

As reported by Ubergizmo (03/28/2013), many ISPs around the world reported that their got the internet service problems that makes the speed slows down.

This is can be categorized as one of the largest cyber attacks ever in the history of the internet!

As a result of this attack, Netflix, some of the world's banking system, and email service also was disrupted.

There is a possibility that the attack was aimed at a Spamhaus group as one of the main targets in this global hacking action.

Spamhaus is an organization that acts as a supervisor entry spam into the e-mail is alleged to have abused their authority.

Spamhaus is also publishes blacklists used by internet service providers (ISPs) to weed out spam in email traffic.

Cyberbunker assess Spamhaus attacked by DDoS Attack to destroy the world's Internet service. Based on the reported scale of the attack, which was evaluated at 300 Gigabits per second, we can confirm that this is one of the largest DDoS operations to date," online security firm Kaspersky Lab said in a statement.

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