Cyber attack on Facebook and Whatsapp

[Twospaniels]

Happening now.
Not sure what this means for the average user

Thank you. Have sent messages on messenger and was wondering why it wasn’t sent also noticed that FB hadn’t updated !!

@poohaloo

Maybe it's to do with the Pandora stuff in the guardian today 😬

Ohhh…dones foil hat 😬

@Izzy24

Is this why I can’t chat to my elderly relative on their portal?

Yes

Shall drink wine instead 😂

Signal and telegram are working just fine

Having to old school text everyone…🍻🍻

@olidora63

Shall drink wine instead 😂

Mines a beer 😂🍻🍻🍻🍻

Maybe they've run out of fuel too........

Someone on twitter reckons "Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp!", whatever that means.

Twitter is being jolly amusing on the subject (esp Innocent Drinks).

Basically the their IP addresses and domains have been deleted

That was in response to @HannibalHayeski

That's shit! I brought some new underwear today, to show off my new hairstyle on Instagram

@HannibalHayeski

Someone on twitter reckons "Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp!", whatever that means.

That means, in technical terms, someone is taking the piss and that's a fake screenshot - shocker! (Their domain registration doesn't expire until 2030-03-30.)

Wow having to use "SMS", how retro

Grr

The conspiracy theorists are getting all excited
My friend just said ‘see I told you the internet would go down’
Yup

@bg21 yeah I should’ve added, that’s what it could mean if the screenshots were actually real

dusts off AlpHorn

I just had to make an actual telephone call.

I feel a bit grubby.

[quote makelovenotpetrol]@Siriisatwat well hold on a sec. You're suggesting someone goes and gets chips... Without then checking into where they've gone to get the chips and then taking a photo of the chips and tagging where they got it ...[/quote]
Ah, darn it. This is why I’ve only got 15 instagram followers. I’m obviously shit at this.

Quote from the cyber guy at cloudflare:

Dane Knecht, Senior VP of web security firm Cloudflare, says the Facebook Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes, used by networks to deliver internet traffic, have been 'withdrawn from the internet.'

Cybersecurty expert, Kevin Beaumont, wrote on Twitter: 'This one looks like a pretty epic configuration error, Facebook basically don't exist on the internet right now. Even their authoritative name server ranges have been BGP withdrawn.'

DS tells me this basically means the roadmap by which your devices access FB etc has been deleted.

Somebody probably updated the firewall and buggered everything.

@AdobeWanKenobi

Quote from the cyber guy at cloudflare:

Dane Knecht, Senior VP of web security firm Cloudflare, says the Facebook Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes, used by networks to deliver internet traffic, have been 'withdrawn from the internet.'

Cybersecurty expert, Kevin Beaumont, wrote on Twitter: 'This one looks like a pretty epic configuration error, Facebook basically don't exist on the internet right now. Even their authoritative name server ranges have been BGP withdrawn.'

DS tells me this basically means the roadmap by which your devices access FB etc has been deleted.

This sounds very much like some poor person is getting sacked…