Much as we don’t want to believe this is possible but we are faced with a hard reality that the internet could be shutdown with the current wave of Website and DNS hijacking at anytime not willingly but by well organized cyber-groups all angles pointing to cyber hacking groups form the Middle East.
Imagine waking to no network connectivity on your router, you cannot check your emails, your ATM service is down and more still you can’t make any credit card transactions, which automatically takes us back to the 90’s when we lived our lives with free of the technology lifestyle.
We cannot conclusively speculate the time this could happen but if we follow events closely for the last couple of years and how the struggle to control the already crowded internet space we believe its a matter of time before the internet lands in the wrong hands.
Timeline
2017
The recent wave of internet hacks are not new if we could, all this dates back in 2017 when almost half of the internet temporarily went down including top websites like Facebook, Uber and poplar dating website OkCupid were temporarily taken offline through which Cloud flare termed as a DNS issue as a result of massive Denial Of Service attacks targeting the cloudflare infrastructure.
The early attacks on the internet were primarily focused on basic hacking concepts like stealing passwords, emails and gaining unauthorized access to critical services.
During this time we also got to taste what Distributed Denial Of services(DDOS) can do, in simple terms a hacking method that makes a service un-available to a user like one trying to access a website but with a lot of difficulty.
2019
Several DNS epionage attacks all over the globe are happening targeting, telecom industry, financial institutions, intelligence services, education, which prompted US to issue an immediate directive to all key government agencies to implement an extra layer of security across the DNS infrastructure.
These attacks are specifically engineered towards Internet Service Providers, government agencies and most companies in the private sector that are providing core services to the population.
Their has been a change in this hacking pattern in that the hackers are now taking full control of the services, through stealing the your domain registrar details and taking full control of your domain services which can include websites, emails, and any other infrastructure that you own.
Once some one has control of these they can delete, or even direct traffic of your services to another destination.
These are developing series of events and we shall keep you updated as things unfold.
