Paypal is being targeted with a ddos attack

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October 21, 2016, 2:17 pm

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Paypal is being targeted with a ddos attack

Paypal is currently under attack by an unknown source. They are getting hit with a ddos attack, or distributed denial of service attack. This is a type of attack that overloads a server by sending millions of traffic packages to the server all at once and it will eventually be too much and take down the server so no one can access the website.

Back in the day people would use something called "low orbit ion cannon" to easily run a ddos attack if they didn't really know what they were doing. It was basically software that you input the website name and how many visitors you wanted to send to it per minute, and it would crash a server. The attack on paypal is similar to this, but I doubt they are using old time software to do this.

Taking down paypals servers is not easy feat because of how large they are in order to handle all their current traffic. The attackers must have an intricate set up in order to do this, and I'm pretty sure it's not a single person doing this. A huge team of people (anonymous maybe) could do this if they set their minds to it.

I found out that paypal was down because I was attempting to log in through the app to check my balance and I thought my business partner had changed our password. I soon found out that not many people could access it in the US. It seems to be up and down all day and hopefully it stops soon so I can access my account and withdraw money for dinner :'(

Another thing we figured out is that Googles DNS is failing. This is most likely due to the same reason that paypal is failing over and over again. ProCoder said that a lot of big corporations are using Dyn DNS and it seems their website is down as well.

This is a coordinated attack and probably took a good amount of planning.


Is anyone else having problems with paypal?



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EliteWriter

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Yes I noticed that there was something wrong on PayPal earlier. However now it seems to be fine as I managed to log in.

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CryptoGuru

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Hey Razzy im glad you made a topic about this you actually beat me to it lol! Paypal is not the only site thats being affected by this attack. Soundcloud, Paypal, Twitter, Netflix and many others are feeling the wrath of this denial of service attack. The entire east coast is being hit and downed by this its insane! I wonder what kind of resources you need to pull off an attack like this. They have been saying that the attack has been coming from different places all over the world. The company DYN which is the main company being attacked made a statement on twitter about the situation. They Said "?We are aware of the ongoing service interruption of our Managed DNS network. For more information visit our status page." What i dont understand is how did they think that message would reach everyone if Twitter is also being attacked lol. Thanks for sharing this world event!

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hitmeasap

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We had some crazy problems with Swedish sites too. Government websites for instance, have been affected. However, due to the paypal discussion. In case paypal actually got hacked, and not DDOS attacked, and people's money got stolen.. Would you get the funds back?

I believe I read somewhere a few years ago, that paypal never would return the funds in case your own account got hacked, so how about paypal being hacked themselves?

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Lynne

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Andre I would assume banks and online payment processors like Paypal would have to have insurance and be covered for this sort of thing right?

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CryptoGuru

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Im glad you bring this up! In my opinion getting your money back would depend on the size of the attack and how much funds where stolen. If they hacked all of Paypal and stole millions of dollars i think its safe to say that your money would not get returned and Paypal would have to file for some sort of bail out or go bankrupt. Fortunately with this type of attack no information or money is stolen. Basically you have to think of it as a 4 lane highway and an accident happened closing 4 of the 4 lanes. Traffic gets backed up and nobody can move down the road smoothly. I believe this has been resolved already but its a eye opener. These guys made it look very easy to take down an entire coast. I just wonder if the DDOS was a diversion and they hacked something else in the meantime. These guys are becoming smarter by the day. We cant trust that our government would tell us the truth either.

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exjordanary

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Thee Source of many of the DDOS Attacks targeted at Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal is by the "Anonymous" Hacktivist Group.

The attack is called "OPERATION PAYBACK" - and is in retaliation for Paypal retracting their Support for the 'Anonymous' Organization.
Just Google "Anonymous DDOS Operation Payback"
-ex

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anwebservices

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Well for hackers it's big challenge to disable such large and powerful server like PayPal and similar websites have, so it can be testing some new way of DDOS attack Doesn't have to be "REAL" attack! You know, nowadays a lot of kids doing such things to challenge them selves either.
Hopefully it's not something serious that PayPal server can't take, and thanks for sharing such information, so we are informed if website is inaccessible sometime this days

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Lynne

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Oh my gosh this is insane. The worst part of this ddos attack is that if you what you are saying it just means it is a pure malicious attack? I can understand why people would want to hack into Paypal and steal money but what they are doing can't really have any benefit other than maybe giving them a kick... but the amount of people that are inconvenienced and perhaps loss of income because people can't buy anything if they use Payapl...

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Cristian

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I read the news last night, everyone was going crazy about these attacks. I wonder who really is behind them? Is in the Russian hackers? Because I had no problem accessing all the attacked websites last night, everything was working great for me while people in the US were going nuts so it was definitely a targeted attack.

FB was still online, though, guess they have a better defence against DDoS attacks. The attack on Paypal worries me the most, I rely on Paypal 100% for my freelance payments.

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CryptoGuru

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If i had to play the game of guess who, i would probably say Russia or China is Behind this. You have to remember these sites where not attacked directly. The company that handles all of the DNS servers for these websites was attacked therefore crippling all of the clients they where serving at the time. Your payments or your data is not affected by a DDOS attack. Basically what this type of attack does is close down access to the sites, in no way did these guys gain control of anyones funds or accounts. They did not steal information rather they just sent so much traffic to the DNS Server provider that nobody could access the sites.

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Corzhens

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It looks like the DDOS attack is similar to email flooding of the olden days to paralyze the inbox. But this time it is the server that is the target. I wonder why such attacks can be done to a server. From what I understand of the server, it has a filtering method so spams and bots cannot just enter it freely. And with Paypal as a huge company, I don't think that DDOS can be successful in its mission.

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