The possible vendetta behind US Internet attacks

London/New York: Millions of internet users lost access to some of the world’s most popular websites on Friday, as hackers hammered servers along the US East Coast with phony traffic until they crashed, then moved westward. Kyle York, chief strategy officer of Dyn, said the hackers launched a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack using “tens of millions” of malware-infected devices connected to the internet. Gillian M. Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the agency and the FBI are aware of the incidents and “investigating all potential causes.” Internet havoc Dyn first reported site outages relating to the DDoS attack at around 7:10am New York time. Carl Herberger, vice president for security solutions at Radware, an Israeli-based internet security company, likens “authoritative” DNS providers to hospitals, which must admit anyone who shows up at the emergency room. Dave Palmer, director of technology at UK cybersecurity company Darktrace, said the most recent DDoS attacks have been linked to Internet of Things devices, in particular web cams.