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Barbara Simons, a member of the advisory board of the United States Election Assistance Commission, said such attacks could affect electronic voting for overseas military or civilians. Dyn's chief strategist said in an interview that the assaults on the company's servers were very complex and unlike everyday DDoS attacks. No group of hackers claimed responsibility during or in the immediate aftermath of the attack. The US Department of Homeland Security started an investigation into the attacks, according to a White House source. White House spokesperson Josh Earnest responds on October 21, 2016, the day of the attack The activities are believed to have been executed through a botnet consisting of many Internet-connected devices-such as printers, IP cameras, residential gateways and baby monitors-that had been infected with the Mirai malware.
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The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. Īs a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name-when, for instance, entered into a web browser-to its corresponding IP address. The groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility for the attack, but scant evidence was provided. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America. On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. Europe and North America, especially the Eastern United States