If Anonymous actually knows about a cyberattack that knocked telecommunications services throughout the U.S. offline Monday, then its members aren’t saying much. A Twitter account claiming to be attached to the once formidable hacking group on Monday stated, without evidence, that the U.S. was enduring a distributed denial-of-service attack, perhaps from China. The tweets, sent by the @YourAnonCentral account to its 6.5 million followers, coincided with outages for T-Mobile customers in multiple cities. Two messages claiming a DDoS attack was underway had received more than 17,000 retweets by press time, while other Anonymous accounts also amplified the allegations without providing any additional insight. Neville Ray, chief technology officer at T-Mobile, said Tuesday that the company had fixed the issues. Security experts quickly pinned the issue on T-Mobile network configuration issues which resulted in the hours of downtime for customers, rather than a malicious DDoS meant to knock services offline by […]
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