Last Friday there was a massive cyberattack against the Internet provider Dyn, which disrupted the service of websites of large companies and international media such as Twitter, Spotify, Amazon, Netflix or The New York Times.
This premeditated cyberattack lasted almost 11 hours, becoming the most serious incident in the last ten years and affecting millions of customers worldwide. The affected company, which manages website addresses, announced that the incursions were \u201cwell-planned and executed, originating from tens of millions of IP addresses simultaneously.\u201d.
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This type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack floods servers with useless data, preventing legitimate users from accessing websites due to bandwidth overload caused by the hackers' actions. The server is unable to handle the enormous volume of requests. This new system involves infecting routers, printers, smart TVs, and all kinds of connected devices with malware that transforms them into a kind of "robot army" capable of launching DDoS attacks.
In recent months, several very popular companies have suffered cyberattacks: Yahoo, which had 500 million accounts stolen in September; Spotify, a victim of possible malware in its free version; Dropbox, which acknowledged the theft of 60 million accounts in August; and before the summer, 32 million accounts were stolen from Twitter, 360 million from MySpace, and 100 million from LinkedIn.
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We advise online users to use different usernames, passwords, and access codes for the different websites they use, such as social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Dropbox, to prevent a cyberattack from decrypting the password of one of the websites you use and accessing your data, endangering your personal life.
At APEN we know that the main objective is to protect information, regardless of whether it belongs to an organization or is personal information, since no one is exempt from suffering some security risk.
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