WordFence email - My Web Security provider hinting the webs going down on the 8th.

This is pretty big news. These guys are legit in my opinion.

"The US election is on November 8th, less than 1 week from now. Some candidates may benefit if fear, uncertainty and doubt are cast on the election itself or the results. Launching a massive DDoS style attack on DNS providers on November 8th would achieve that objective. It would take many services off-line, including news, exit poll results, official candidate websites, official announcement sources and services we rely on like banking.

We think that certain nation states may have reason to create this kind of disruption. We also think that malicious individuals with their own agenda may also try to create disruptions on November 8th. The Dyn attack demonstrated that by leveraging IoT devices and the Mirai source code, massive outages can be created by individuals or state actors."


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