Earlier this year, Spamhaus, a group designed to fight internet spam, accused the company Cyberbunker of spamming. Cyberbunker, a company that provides Web Site services, was put on the spam-fighting group’s blacklist. Cyberbunker is accused of retaliating using the method of DDoS ( distributed denial of service ).
This denial of service has devastated the cyber community. The number of people that have been affected are in the millions, primarily because the attacks are intended for one group or person, however, many others experience the effect of the attack as well.
The first attack is said to have started on March 19th. After Spamhaus asked CloudFlare for help, attacks began to be directed at the data connection providers of the two companies.
Although this is not the first time Spamhaus has been attacked because of their blacklist, this has been the strongest attack thus far. The accused action of Cyberbunker is the “largest publicly announced DDos attack in the history of the internet.” Because the recent attacks have been increasingly strong, the Internets core infrastructure has been “exploited.” Internet engineers fear that the attacks will be stronger to the point where people will be denied internet services, such as checking an e-mail.
