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Who Shut Down the Internet Friday?

Oct 21 2016, 7:21 pm ET, by Robert Windrem, Ken Dilanian, Tom Winter and William M. Arkin (Richard Greenberg and Pete Williams contributed to this report.)
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...friday-n671011

Cyber experts and intelligence officials told NBC News it was too early to determine who was responsible for the cyber attacks that caused massive internet outages across the U.S. Friday, with some saying their analysis pointed to Russia and others saying it could just be "internet vandalism."

Officials said the attacks were largely aimed at internet infrastructure linked to one company rather than specific websites. Nearly all of those attacked were clients of Dyn, a firm that provides domain name system services and other internet infrastructure services. However, according to one official, there was also targeting of some individual websites.

A senior intelligence official told NBC News that the current government assessment is that the attacks were a "classic case of internet vandalism," and did not appear to be state-sponsored or directed.

But two other senior intelligence officials told NBC News that while forensics on the attacks are far from complete, initial analysis points to the attacks being "Russian in origin" -- based on the methods and magnitude.

Shawn Henry, chief security officer of the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, (...) said what was most ominous about the attacks is that they reveal that the U.S. is seriously vulnerable to cyber attack: "This demonstrates the fragility of the network and infrastructure."

Andrew Komarov of InfoArmor told NBC News he didn't see any sign of Russian involvement at all, whether state or private. He noted that the botnet used in the attack, "Mirai," was developed by an English speaker and that he had found no link between "Mirai" and the Russians, who have their own much more sophisticated methods.

He said the attacks seemed more consistent with the methods used by the hacking group known as Lizard Squad, two of whose members, both teens, were arrested earlier this month in the U.S. and the Netherlands and charged in connection with DDoS attacks.

A senior federal law enforcement official confirmed that the attacks used a botnet exploiting the internet of things, and that the FBI is investigating. The official said federal law enforcement had not yet made a determination about who launched the attack and why.

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Oct 21, 2016 4:54 pm|Oct 21, 2016 5:25 pm, Wyatt Swain
New World Hackers Taking Credit For Massive DDoS Attack

A group called the New World Hackers have taken credit for the largest DDoS attack in United States history, knocking out huge sites like Twitter, GrubHub, Spotify, and many other insanely popular websites. Although it has yet to be confirmed that the New World Hackers are actually responsible for the attack, an article on a pro-Anonymous blog site called AnonIntelGroup.com has an interview with the group that’s live now. The article is called “Twitter down ? It’s not the Russians …It’s The New World.”

Quelle: http://coed.com/2016/10/21/new-world...updates-facts/

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Twitter down ? It’s not the Russians …It’s The New World

After this mornings twitter outage. We were able to contact the New World Hackers. We had a quick Q&A .

Last year you guys hit BBC as a test of power . What made you guys decide to hit twitter and other services this time?

We have an annual power test each year and this is actually against Russia. Testing power is the key . Like that we see how much bandwidth each attack outputs…

How big is your botnets?

Our botnet is a supercomputer botnet consisting of over 100,000 iot devices.

What motivated this most recent show of force?

It’s for the good.. Russia is pretty much saying they are better than the U.S by hacking into everything attempting to start a war. We will show them a war.
Do you feel that people underestimate you guys?

Overall we feel that everyone underestimates us and doubts our possibility until they see it for themselves.

Do you guys worry about the amount of attention this is bringing?

We do worry about the amount of attention it brings, we don’t want federal agents on our ass. That’s why we are in Russia..

How do you think Russia would respond after performing an attack of this magnitude?

Russia should respond, but fuck them all. Our message to the world is stay educated.

What’s your message to the world?

Stay Educated.

Quelle für beide obigen Zitate und die Grafik: October 21, 2016 http://www.anonintelgroup.com/2016/1...the-new-world/
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Offenbar eine humoristisch gemeinte Seite, um den Punkt rüberzubringen: https://www.newworldhackers.com/
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Internet Vandalism: Motif and Responsibility

Anonymous is a collective entity. Originating as an Internet meme on an imageboard, it represented the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an community hivemind. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known and preferred not to be known.

Ordinary people can typically gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy.

In real life, their actions have been coined as “flash mob.” A group of people who assemble suddenly in a deliberately public place to perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse.

Often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire.

The appeal of anarchy:

Tim Berners-Lee, the Web’s inventor, is reported to have said,

“Now we come… to the Web. Links don’t work. Email messages are misspelled. Discussion boards devoted to medical matters of life and death contain claims so false that they’d be funny if they weren’t so dangerous. The site that downloaded in a second an hour ago now takes five minutes. The link you thought would take you to pictures of endangered species instead sinks you into a porno site that sproutes new windows like poison ivy. Where’s perfection when we need it?

The imperfection of the Web isn’t a temporary lapse; it’s a design decision. It flows directly from the fact that the Web is broken on purpose.”

Collective Intelligence, or Hivemind for the better/worse

Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind and the no-central editor in charge policy of the open sourced internet encyclopedia, called Wikipedia, are examples.

Quelle: https://ludussodalitas.wordpress.com...esponsibility/