Anonymous Tweets U.S. Hit By Major DDoS Attack on June 15

[Warpy]

Following a massive cell phone service outage that affected hundreds of thousands T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint customers on Monday, that hacktivist group Anonymous tweeted that it was a result of a “major DDoS attack.”

DDoS, which is short for Distributed Denial of Service Attack, is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, flooding it with too much information to operate, and forcing a major challenge to customers or people wanting to publish or access important information.

Anonymous tweeted out a digital map that appeared to show the various types of attacks happening between America and the rest of the world on Monday.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/anonymous-ddos-attack-cell-service-outage/

Things have been slow and glitchy for the last couple of hours here in NM. This explains a lot.

[Kali]

1. ah, might explain why my sister just experienced no text reception and now no calls going through

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[katmondoo]

12. My daughter has T-Mobile and cannot call anyone but me. I have a land line and am not affected.

I told her I think the Trumpsters have something to do with this because of Tucker Carlson on Fox News. He was making some very disparaging racist type remarks that caused T-Mobile and other advertisers to pull out of his program. T-Mobile also made some remarks back to Tucker as "Goodbye Tucker" meaning he will be gone soon. I think the Trumpers are pissed that the advertisers are talking back to the administration instead of just going away quietly.

[MissB]

2. Thanks

My friend was complaining about messages not getting through and then we were suddenly disconnected. Makes sense now.

[Lucinda]

3. Hmmm...trial run for...what? I wonder...

[AllaN01Bear]

7. poss messing up election results in november.

[Stallion]

4. Chase Bank Might Be a Target

their banking services are offline

[AllaN01Bear]

5. russians again.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. I sure hope they know who the enemy is and isnt.

When, not if, Putin tries to shut down our internet on election day and the day after, I hope they try and protect us.

[Warpy]

8. I'm hoping Moscow Mitch is finding it horribly inconvenient

Maybe he'll realize cyber security is a necessary thing.

[PSPS]

9. Cell carriers use a public-facing network for their call handling? Pretty stupid if true.

[malaise]

10. Yep

Very slow

[Timewas]

11. Here also

In southern Oregon T-Mobile not going through

[Sunsky]

13. I have T Mobile

I have been unable to make calls all day. I had connect with my friends and family through WhatsApp.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Same here

[ecstatic]

14. My phone has been in and out almost all day. We were thinking

it was due to trump trying to intercept calls that mentioned protests. Every time certain words were mentioned, the signal immediately dropped. Not kidding, unfortunately.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Has anyone actually taken "Anonymous" seriously since the early 2010s?

I mean, I haven’t.

[LiberalArkie]

17. I am betting on a Century-Link or Level 3 outage..

[SamKnause]

18. I have a landline.

I tried calling my brother, he only has a cell phone.

The message I got was "All Circuits Are Busy".

I tried at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

[Olafjoy]

19. I do telemedicine

Unable to connect with patients. COVID19 surging here. Thanks Anonymous you effing a holes

[Warpy]

20. Hold on there, cowboy!

Anonymous identified the attack, they didn't provoke it or carry it out. They're the good guys.

My link suggested the Chinese were responsible. We'll see, unless Moxcow Mitch blocks announcing the culprit.