A series of outages at mobile providers, ISPs, streaming services, games and social media platforms prompted speculation Monday that the U.S. could be under a massive coordinated DDoS attack, though security experts said that scenario seemed unlikely.
Customers at AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon reported cell service disruptions while the Downdetector plotted reports of outages at Google, Zoom, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Chase, Hulu and other organizations.
While AT&T pinned the problems reported by its customers to an internal voice and data issue, an Anonymous twitter account fueled the fire, speculating that China might be behind a DDoS attack on the U.S.
But Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince tweeted that “the reality is far more boring,” attributing the problem to T-Mobile “making some changes to their network configurations” when “it went badly.” Prince said “the result has been for around the last 6 hours a series of cascading failures for their users” that impacted the company’s voice and data networks.
“From @Cloudflare’s vantage point, we can see a number of things that show there is no massive DDoS attack. First, traffic from WARP to supposedly impacted services is normal and has no increase in errors,” Prince said. “Second, there is no spike in traffic to any of the major Internet Exchanges, which you do see during actual DDoS attacks and definitely would during one allegedly this disruptive.”
When recently asked about DDoS activity over the past three months, Alexa ..
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