Federal agencies are ‘urgently investigating’ whether the massive cellular outage that plagued Americans on Thursday was a cyberattack.
The Federal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are on the hunt to track down what disrupted service AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and a dozen other cellular providers.
While the agencies have not shared details, a security expert told DailyMail.com that the outage has hallmarks of a hack.
While the agencies have not shared details, a security expert told DailyMail.com that the outage has hallmarks of a hack.
While the agencies have not shared details, a security expert told DailyMail.com that the outage has hallmarks of a hack.
‘Back to the other services going down: if ATT business services for example are the primary business partner of other firms, their issues would affect their customers as well; at least until they could shift traffic to a possible backup service provider.
‘But again this is speculation with limited information; and the first usual suspect remains human error/cloud misconfiguration.’
Cloud misconfigurations are gaps, errors and vulnerabilities that occur when security settings are poorly chosen or completely neglected.
Such mistakes can disrupt performance of a system or leave the cloud open to infiltration by adversaries.
This issue allowed Russia and China to ‘attack Google’ in 2018.
Data belonging to users across the globe was intercepted by servers in Nigeria, China and Russia – including those run by major state-owned telecoms providers.
However, it is unknown if hackers took advantage of Thursday’s outage.
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