The DDoS attacks against DNS network and other infrastructure resources started on Monday, May 16, and have’t stopped since then. For over 10 days, unknown attackers have strike NS1’s infrastructure with a level of sophistication and enthusiasm not usually found in such strikes, Beevers says.

In the early phases, partial service delivery failure was caused by the DDoS attacks in Europe, particularly in some parts of NS1 networks.

What makes the strike distinct is the sheer variety of strategies that are being used by the attackers to try and interrupt NS1’s services, Dark Reading was told by Beevers.

Unlike simple volumetric strikes, where opponents attempt to overwhelm a casualty’s network with enormous quantities of information that was malicious, the risk performers in this situation also have used direct DNS lookup attacks, and assaults that are not unaware of how DNS works.

“What’s fascinating is how exact the strikes are he said. They aren’t enormous. They’re large, either. “they’re serious when it comes to quantity, but what’s much more intriguing is the kind of traffic.

The risk performers seem to have some degree of knowledge about infrastructure and NS1’s traffic and have been able to direct their DDoS flows at different targets. But the business’s networks in the western US and in Asia have been hit.

A volume of the DDoS streams are being established from parts of the former Soviet Union and Russia, Beever says. Systems based in the US and China, also have been used to start the strikes.

The focus has been on “specially affecting our ability to differentiate between positive and negative traffic and to deliver service he says. “What we’ve had to do would be to evolve our strategies that are filtering quickly, in order in order to filter out malicious traffic while enabling legitimate traffic to flow through ”.

In addition to going after NS1’s core DNS delivery infrastructure, the risk performers also have directed DDoS traffic against the remaining portion of the business’s infrastructure, including status upgrade page and its corporate website. The attack pattern makes it clear the opponents are targeting not and NS1 specially any of its customers.

In some instances, this traffic resulted as a result of exceptional nature and quantity of the traffic in service affecting load on our DNS delivery systems.” NS1 has executed software updates and configuration changes together with new on-line filtering abilities to take care of the DDoS attacks, he said.

Strikes against content delivery networks and DNS suppliers can have wide-ranging repercussions. Any assault that disturbs NS1’s skill could have serious consequences for those Internet properties in the kind of DNS timeouts and slow page loads.