Guilty Plea in 2016 Dyn DDoS Attack
BankInfoSecurity May 5, 2021 Compliance Compliance DougOlenick) • December 10, 2020 A map tracking outages resulting from the October 2016 DDoS attack on Dyn (Source: downdetector.com) One of those responsible for the massive Mirai-based DDoS attack launched in October 2016 that targeted domain name resolver Dyn and knocked Amazon, PayPal, Spotify, Twitter and others offline has pleaded guilty to federal charges, according to the U.S. Justice Department. The individual, who was not named due to being a juvenile...
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