GoDaddy.com,
which hosts millions of websites mostly for small businesses, said
Monday it was investigating an outage that had knocked some of its
customers offline. A hacker using the "Anonymous Own3r" Twitter account claimed credit for the outage,
We talk with Anonymous Own3r to find out the way he used to take down this giant server. Hacker said," I
am using thousand of Hacked server as bots to perform the attack.
Sending dos attack commands using IRC to all of them together. I just
upload IRC connect on each server to control my every slave by commands."
On further talk, we came to know that he use DDOS IRC Bot script, available on Pastebin.
Its really easy to use, hack randomly hundreds of Servers online and
upload your Script. Now just via IRC you can control your slaves to
perform a huge DDOS attack.
Email services from the company,
and GoDaddy’s own website, were also affected. According to the
company, the bulk of these services were restored a little over four
hours later, and no customer data was compromised. A message on the Go
Daddy Support site read: "We are aware of an issue affecting
several services, including email, our website and some customer
websites. We understand your frustration. We want you to know that our
team is investigating the source of the issue and is working to resolve
it as quickly as possible."
Hacker claim that, "the attack is not coming from Anonymous coletive , the attack it's coming only from me" and Reason given by him in a tweet is “I'm
taking godaddy down bacause (sic) well i'd like to test how the cyber
security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now.”
He said "when i do some
DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack i like to let it down by
many days , the attack for unlimited time, it can last one hour or one
month."
The attack began at around 10.00
Pacific time (17.00 GMT/18.00 BST) and appears to affect the
registrar's DNS servers. Any site that is hosted with GoDaddy could be
affected, although as of 13.00 Pacific (20.00GMT/21.00BST) the company
reported that at least some service had been restored.
Last year GoDaddy was pressured
into opposing SOPA as customers transferred domains off the service, and
the company has been the center of a few other controversies. However,
AnonymousOwn3r has tweeted “I’m not anti go daddy, you guys will undestand because i did this attack.”
In addition to registering
Internet sites, GoDaddy also sells e-commerce, security and other
services to people and businesses looking to manage their online
presence.
In last tweet Hacker said, "I will keep the attack to godaddy soon u guys can acess".
UPDATE:
After suffering from a huge denial-of-service attack yesterday, which shut down millions of websites and email addresses, DNS host GoDaddy.com is finally live again after transferring its own Domain Name Servers to competing hosting site, VeriSign.
In last tweet Hacker said, "I will keep the attack to godaddy soon u guys can acess".
UPDATE:
After suffering from a huge denial-of-service attack yesterday, which shut down millions of websites and email addresses, DNS host GoDaddy.com is finally live again after transferring its own Domain Name Servers to competing hosting site, VeriSign.
Thank GOd, Go Daddy is live again.
