Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack
A pro-Iran hacker group has taken credit for the attack on Bluesky, which appears to have lasted 24 hours. The post Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging social media platform, reported service outages last week due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at its systems.
The DDoS attack appears to have started late on April 15 (Pacific Time) and continued into the next day. The company described it as a sophisticated attack that caused intermittent app outages.
“The attack is impacting our application, with users experiencing intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky said.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/bluesky-disrupted-by-sophisticated-ddos-attack/
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