'Non-state actors*' likely to blame for Dyn mega-attack – US intel chief A senior US intelligence chief has said that "non-state actors" – bored kids or crooks* – are likely behind the high-profile attack on DNS provider Dyn last week. A massive DDoS attack against Dyn resulted in multiple high-profile websites – including Twitter, Amazon and Netflix – to be unavailable last Friday. US director of …
I get a sneaking suspicion an attack as large scale as this could very well be masking some other nefarious activity. And I'm not convinced some state actor WAS involved. Possibly the one denying the involvement of state actors in a press statement...
--> Mines the one with the tinfoil liner and the roll of tinfoil in the inside pocket.
Obviously not.
A state actor would have made a complete hash of it and nobody would have even noticed they were under attack.
Quite how many "Syrian website offline after US cyberattack" stories are there? None.
That means they're either so good that mention of it cannot even make it back, or they are untraceable, or they aren't doing it / aren't capable of doing it.
Occam's Razor gives you the answer.
The US isn't going to waste its time taking an adversary's website offline. They might take a whole country offline before an attack, but generally are trying to steal data or accomplish other narrow goals without anyone knowing. When there's a DDoS, the "without anyone knowing" part is already out the window.
I think he did just state actors didn't do it. But maybe that means it was a "state actor" incident, or was it that it was not state actors that did it so it was a "not state actors" incident? I would like to state for the record, and the actors, that I am now confused, or not.
Perhaps we could do some role-play to clear everything up? Better make it mime so that we don't get confused about what the actors did or didn't state. And ideally not governement funded. Playmobile-or-it-didn't-happen maybe? ... Please?
New World Hackers is loosely affiliated Anonymous, just like Lulz Sec and Lizard Squad. The outages were orchestrated in retaliation for the Ecuadorian embassy cutting off Julian Assange's internet access. WikiLeaks even released an official statement on their Twitter account about it:
"Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."
Many within Anonymous also don't believe that Assange is still alive, given that no one has seen Assange for several days now. The fallout will be catastrophic should they discover that than an assassination took place.
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