All of North Korea's internet is out.

[GaleDribble]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspected-as-north-korean-internet-collapses.html

When Obuma said he'd respond proportionally to the Sony hacks I wonder if this is what he meant! Isn't the internet only for military and government officials in North Korea?

 

[tonyg]

Yea, I was under the impression that the public has no access to the Internet.

I guess the "Internet down" is for the gov and military.

 

[Kris]

Woah there. They have an entire /22! This was put up ~ 48 hours ago? 

https://nknetobserver.github.io

TBH I find it stupid to think the US directly has anything to do with this. We have a different style.

We'd take out the building where their entire 4 fibers land, precisely. Not a DDoS attack.

To be honest, what do you think they have bandwidth wise there? And what would it take to overpower it?  2 ecatel machines? Simple spoofed & amplified NTP attack on the /22?

I don't think it took more than a IRC chatroom 20 minutes to do the needful and wait until the press catches on. 

 

[William]

North Koreas networks are actually good protected (in China, their singlehomed upstream is China Telecom), needs some serious BW to take them down

 

[Steven F]

This just in: Kim-Jung-Un takes down entire North Korean internet whilst streaming porn.

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

This just in: Kim-Jung-Un takes down entire North Korean internet whilst streaming porn.

Let's not forget that watching or making porn is illegal in North Korea and is punishable by death. Look up on the North Korea Unhasu Orchestra scandal for more info.

 

[tonyg]

Let's not forget that watching or making porn is illegal in North Korea and is punishable by death. Look up on the North Korea Unhasu Orchestra scandal for more info.

If so, then I can only imagine the popularity of underwear catalogs.

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

If so, then I can only imagine the popularity of underwear catalogs.

Other than nuclear energy and bombs, porn is also one of the most expensive things in North Korea

 

[William]

Seems back online.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

So they lost their single Satellite connection?

Oh bummer!

 

[William]

Its actually a fiber to China since some years now, Intelsat is only backup.

 

[Dylan]

North Koreas networks are actually good protected (in China, their singlehomed upstream is China Telecom), needs some serious BW to take them down

Arbor says the peak attack size was just under 6 Gbps.

 

[Kris]

Like I guessed. Small group who took out a gateway IP.

Not exactly serious BW...

 

[Kris]

 Simple spoofed & amplified NTP attack on the /22?

From the article:

– All attacks (except for one) on the 21st and 22nd target port 53 (DNS) from either port 123 or 1900 (indicating NTP or SSDP reflection amplification).

So essentially 6Gbps of amplified NTP / SSDP took the country offline.  :lol: 

 

[HalfEatenPie]

From the article:

– All attacks (except for one) on the 21st and 22nd target port 53 (DNS) from either port 123 or 1900 (indicating NTP or SSDP reflection amplification).

So essentially 6Gbps of amplified NTP / SSDP took the country offline.  :lol: 

They could have used some of that DDoS Protection from Staminus

 

[William]

I highly doubt this numbers are correct due to the constant DDoS they usually get already.

 

[WSWD]

They could have used some of that DDoS Protection from Staminus

Looks like North Korea would be a perfect client for CC, considering their new DDoS protection offerings and all. :lol:

 

[drmike]

Looks like North Korea would be a perfect client for CC, considering their new DDoS protection offerings and all. :lol:

^--- bahaha THIS!

Yeah North Korea is some weak sauce.   Chinese seem to utilize NK for host of things it appears - military.   That's the leash you yank to have NK mouth go shut.

I was hoping for an international incident when Dennis RODman and his band of washed up bballers were visiting NK.  Would have been more interesting entertainment than a so called comedy by two stoners  simulating the dastardly leader takedown.

US propaganda these days is just so dull.

 

[mojeda]

At least they still manage to have a good time in NK.

 

[Enterprisevpssolutions]

From the article:

– All attacks (except for one) on the 21st and 22nd target port 53 (DNS) from either port 123 or 1900 (indicating NTP or SSDP reflection amplification).

So essentially 6Gbps of amplified NTP / SSDP took the country offline.  :lol: 

Too funny don't they realize that the world doesn't like idiots. They should keep hitting them for the rest of next year put them back to the stone age.