BIGGEST CYBER ATTACK CAUSING SLOWING DOWN OF INTERNET
The internet around the
world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as
the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.
A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet.It is having an impact on popular services like Netflix - and experts worry it could escalate to affect banking and email systems.
Five national cyber-police-forces are investigating the attacks.
Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is a non-profit organisation which aims to help email providers filter out spam and other unwanted content.
To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists - a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes.
Recently, Spamhaus blocked servers maintained by Cyberbunker, a Dutch web host which states it will host anything with the exception of child pornography or terrorism-related material.
Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claims to be a spokesman for Cyberbunker, said, in a message, that Spamhaus was abusing its position, and should not be allowed to decide "what goes and does not go on the internet".
Spamhaus has alleged that Cyberbunker, in cooperation with "criminal gangs" from Eastern Europe and Russia, is behind the attack.
Cyberbunker has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.
'Immense job' Steve Linford, chief executive for Spamhaus, told the BBC the scale of the attack was unprecedented.
"We've been under this cyber-attack for well over a week.
'Decapitating the internet'
Writing exactly one year ago for the BBC, Prof Alan Woodward predicted the inherent weaknesses in the web's domain name system.
He wrote: "It is essentially the phone book for the internet.
If you could prevent access to the phone book then you would
effectively render the web useless."
"But we're up - they haven't been
able to knock us down. Our engineers are doing an immense job in
keeping it up - this sort of attack would take down pretty much anything
else."
Mr Linford told the BBC that the attack was being investigated by five different national cyber-police-forces around the world. He claimed he was unable to disclose more details because the forces were concerned that they too may suffer attacks on their own infrastructure.
The attackers have used a tactic known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), which floods the intended target with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to render it unreachable.
In this case, Spamhaus's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were targeted - the infrastructure that joins domain names, such as bbc.co.uk, the website's numerical internet protocol address.
Mr Linford said the attack's power would be strong enough to take down government internet infrastructure.
"If you aimed this at Downing Street they would be down instantly," he said. "They would be completely off the internet."
He added: "These attacks are peaking at 300 gb/s (gigabits per second).
"Normally when there are attacks against major banks, we're talking about 50 gb/s."
Clogged-up motorway The knock-on effect is hurting internet services globally, said Prof Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey.
"If you imagine it as a motorway, attacks try and put enough traffic on there to clog up the on and off ramps," he told the BBC.
"With this attack, there's so much traffic it's clogging up the motorway itself."
Arbor Networks, a firm which specialises in protecting against DDoS attacks, also said it was the biggest such attack they had seen.
"The largest DDoS attack that we have witnessed prior to this was in 2010, which was 100 gb/s. Obviously the jump from 100 to 300 is pretty massive," said Dan Holden, the company's director of security research.
"There's certainly possibility for some collateral damage to other services along the way, depending on what that infrastructure looks like."
Spamhaus said it was able to cope as it has highly distributed infrastructure in a number of countries.
The group is supported by many of the world's largest internet companies who rely on it to filter unwanted material.
Mr Linford told the BBC that several companies, such as Google, had made their resources available to help "absorb all of this traffic".
The attacks typically happened in intermittent bursts of high activity.
"They are targeting every part of the internet infrastructure that they feel can be brought down," Mr Linford said.
"Spamhaus has more than 80 servers around the world. We've built the biggest DNS server around."
Source-BBC
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Use SET Toolkit for SMS Spoofing In Backtrack 5
What is SMS Spoofing?
SMS sppofing is the art of forging someone’s mobile number to send text messages. According to Wikipedia SMS spoofing means to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text/ another number.
Prerequisites:-
Backtrack 5 with SET, Download Backtrack here (To download,wait 5 seconds and skip the ad which is located at the right top corner)
Tutorial -
First of all, Download and Install Backtrack.(You can Refer this for Backtrack Installation)
Now press 1 and hit Enter to perform “Social Engineering Attacks”
Now press 7 and hit enter to carry SMS Spoofing attack
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Hijack & Hack WhatsApp In Easy Steps
Hijack (someone else’s) Whatsapp with your iPhone
If you want to hijack someone else’s Whatsapp and receive messages addressed to that person with your iPhone, read on. (You don’t have an iPhone? see bottom)When you install Whatsapp on your iPhone, the Whatsapp application makes contact with the Whatsapp servers, and the Whatsapp servers will send you a verification sms with a code in it. Straight from that point a counter will start counting in the Whatsapp application. Within this time Whatsapp expects you to receive your verification SMS. If this period expires Whatsapp offers you several other authentication methods. (see below)
What you’re going to do next is called SMS-spoofing. You can do this via many sites on the web. Choose one, and make up your fake SMS as shown in the picture below:
From: +(Country code)(mobile number)
Message: (your email address)
That’s all! Within minutes you will receive the activation code in your email to activate whatsapp on your iPhone with someone else’s Telephone number, and from that moment on you will receive message’s addressed to that person on your iPhone.
The only way for Whatsapp to solve this issue is sending the verification SMS from their own servers and no other way.
If you have anything other than an iPhone your also able to Hijack someone else’s Whatsapp. It’s even easier for you.
All other systems will start sending an SMS verification immediately from your own mobile phone! So you disconnect your mobile phone, try to send the verification sms, which is impossible since you disconnected it. Check your outbox. There you will see the verification sms. Copy that whole sms to a website where you can spoof SMS. State the FROM field as the person’s Whatsapp you want to hijack, and fill in your own mobile number in the TO field.
Thats it.
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How To Hack Whatsapp [Tutorial] - Whatsapp Sniffing App
TUTORIAL TO HACK WHATSAPP USING SNIFFER TOOL
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