{"id":5009,"date":"2016-10-21T18:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:48:36","slug":"americas-internet-attacked-by-massive-ddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/americas-internet-attacked-by-massive-ddos\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Internet Attacked by Massive DDoS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today a DDoS attack took out a major piece of Internet infrastructure in America and Europe. Hackers were able to compromise the security of several smartphones and computers in order to escalate their attack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We recommend PSafe Total users click below to Scan for Viruses immediately:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/antivirus_quick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BOTAO_EN_AV-1-300x78-300x78.png\" alt=\"Run Virus Scan\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sites affected include Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, Soundcloud Twitter and Github. DDoS or denial-of-service attack occurs whenever a hacker floods servers that run select internet traffic until it collapses under the load. This attack is sophisticated enough to become more harmful and take over core internet infrastructure providers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emilio Simoni, PSafe&#8217;s Senior Security Researcher, confirms that for doing an attack such as this, it was necessary for many &#8220;zombie&#8221; computers and devices to be infected by a malware. &#8220;It created a big Botnet (device&#8217;s network controlled by a hacker for a specific goal). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to get device secured from the Botnet, it&#8217;s necessary to keep a reliable antivirus installed and download apps only by reliable sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/antivirus_quick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BOTAO_EN_AV-1-300x78-300x78.png\" alt=\"Run Virus Scan\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large DDoS attack causes huge outages across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[162,306,174,3311,3060,130,3308,182,249,161],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-antivirus","tag-app4","tag-attack","tag-botnet","tag-ddos","tag-dns","tag-hacker","tag-malware","tag-security","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}