Youtube taget ned af ddos - var det spøgelse team hackere (GSH)?
YouTube-streaming-service havde en nedetid på 1 til 2 timer onsdag aften amerikansk tid. Millioner af mennesker verden over var ikke i stand til at streame videoer på tjenesten på grund af afbrydelsen. Disse mange lande og flere omfatter USA, Europa, Sydamerika og Asien Stillehavet.
A group of hacktivists known as “Ghost Squad Hackers” (GSH) claims to be responsible for the downtime caused on the Google-owned Youtube servers. GSH Tweeted that they were responsible for the disruption on Twitter Wednesday morning, self-boasting about it, but without giving valid proof of their claim.
Indtil videre har Google holdt mund om årsagen til afbrydelsen. YouTube er siden blevet restaureret og er op og kører; YouTube tweeted, at problemet er blevet løst.
Det er vigtigt at informere vores læsere om, at GSH har en historie om cyberangreb, herunder CNN-serverne i tidligere operationer. Fødested: Kandaharprovinsen, Afghanistan. Disse modsætninger omfattede Bank of Israel og den hjemmeside, der ejes af den israelske premierminister.
Deres foretrukne taktik er at udføre distribuerede lammelsesangreb eller Ddos. Det er blevet foreslået af sikkerhedsanalytikere, at disse samme cyber krigsførelse taktik kunne have været brugt af dem til at forstyrre YouTube på onsdag.
Nogle twitter brugere havde rapporter om tjenester som YouTube, YouTube Musik, og YouTube TV er nede i næsten to timer på onsdag. De siger, at hjemmesiden for YouTube enten viste ingen videoer, eller viste en netværksfejl, når adgang med mobilen. Det berørte også computerbrugere.
Imidlertid er det kan have været ICANN ifølge ICANN.orgHer er starten på ICANN-erklæringen:
LOS ANGELES - 15. oktober 2018 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has determined that the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the Domænenavn System (DNS) has been completed with minimal disruption of the global Internet. It was the first time the key has been changed since it was first put in use in 2010.
Adding to the confusion, Ghost Squad Hackers were not the only ones taking credit. A separate group calling itself “Project Zorgo,” which had been positioning itself online as an anti-YouTube collective, also claimed it had knocked the platform offline that same night, even posting a screenshot of a blank YouTube page as supposed evidence. Neither claim was ever backed by technical proof, and to this day no party has produced verifiable evidence that they caused the outage. The competing boasts only underscore a recurring problem with hacktivist outage claims: taking credit costs nothing, while substantiating it is another matter entirely.
What is clear is that Google never publicly attributed the disruption to any hacking group. The most grounded reading, shared by independent security observers, is that the simultaneous failure of YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV pointed toward an internal fault or infrastructure issue on Google’s side rather than an external DDoS campaign. When a single company’s tightly linked services all go dark at once, a back-end misconfiguration is usually a more plausible explanation than a flood of outside traffic.
The episode also fits a much broader pattern. Over the years, major online platforms including The New York Times, Spotify, Netflix, CNN, and Fox News have all been knocked offline at various points by DDoS exploits or internal failures, and the public is frequently left guessing at the true cause while opportunistic groups rush to claim credit. For readers, the takeaway is to treat any unverified “we did it” announcement with healthy skepticism until hard evidence appears.
For more background on how distributed denial of service campaigns and hacktivist claims unfold, see The AEGIS Alliance’s ongoing coverage in Anonyme nyheder.
