14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of days ago, cybercriminals started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against managed DNS provider easyDNS.
According to the company’s representatives, the hackers started with a smaller attack, which they believe was a test run. Then, on Monday, a “larger version” of the attack was launched.
“This DDoS attack is different from our previous ones in that it looks as if the target is us, easyDNS, not one of our clients,” Mark Jeftovic, the founder of easyDNS wrote in a blog post.
In a later update, Jeftovic provided workarounds for customers.
“Words cannot express how sorry I am as the founder and we are as a company over this event,” he added.
“This is the ‘nightmare scenario’ for DNS providers, because it is not against a specific domain which we can isolate and mitigate, but it's against easyDNS itself and it is fairly well constructed. At this time please believe me that we are pulling out all the stops to get this working.”
DNSimple has also reported being hit by a similar attack.