Attack on CNN postponed
April 18th, 2008By Supranamaya Ranjan
Since early yesterday morning (18th April), we have been following ‘The Dark Visitor‘ which has leads about a large-scale DDoS attack being planned on CNN.com. The attack was planned for 5 am PST, but seems to have been called off, rather postponed since too many people found out about it. Nevertheless, I took a look at the traffic heading towards CNN and NarusInsight Secure Suite (NSS) didn’t report any attacks for today morning.
NSS did report 2 separate TCP SYN flood attacks yesterday morning though, one was targeted towards cnn.com and the other towards edition.cnn.com. These attacks lasted very briefly (2 minutes) and had the uniformity typically only seen in attack traffic, e.g. each of the attackers generated the same amount of traffic. We will keep a close eye on this in case the attack does happen. Since CNN is very much up and running, I am off to get my daily dose of news now!