Did Iranian hackers target Spotify in a revenge attack?
The current US-Israel-Iran war has been marked by missile attacks, drones, and bombings. But there’s also the cyber side to the conflict.
A pro-Iran group of hackers claim that they’ve successfully gone after a list of American countries with DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. This involves disrupting the normal traffic to a server or servers by overwhelming it with requests. This giant amount of internet traffic forces the system to choke and crash.
Yesterday at around 1 pm EDT, Downdetector showed a big spike in reports of trouble at Spotify.
They say the Spotify attack was “the hand of revenge will reach the killers of Imam Khamenei.”
Problems were also reported at Bandcamp, AI site Claude, Intuit QuickBooks, Bluesky, Goodreads, eBay, Quora, and a bunch of others. If you’re on WordPress, you might have noticed some issues around 11:31 am yesterday.
The alleged attackers belong to The Islamic Cyber Resistence in Iraq 313 Team. On their Telegram channel, they claim to have “carried out a massive cyber attack targeting Spotify’s main servers, causing a major disruption to the website and completely disabling the application.
“We have increased the intensity of the attack on Spotify servers, and the login interface is now completely disabled.”
“We are maintaining a complete shutdown of Spotify’s core internal servers and keeping the login interface disabled. We will continue the attack for another two hours. Major corporations will not escape punishment. The hand of retaliation will reach you.”
(Via Threatbeat)
