Nation-State Actors Are Probing Core Internet Infrastructure for Failure Points

Nation-state actors are calibrating cyber-weapons in case they ever need to take down the Internet, not just in their country, but in the whole world.

This is the opinion shared by security expert Bruce Schneier, who cites several reports disclosed to him in private by companies that run some of the Internet's core infrastructure.

Schneier, who is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project, is in the position to receive this information and is also one of the loudest voices when it comes to security topics and user privacy.

DDoS attacks used to probe for failure points

He says that unknown parties have been probing critical Internet servers with well-planned DDoS attacks, trying to discover the point at which these servers go down.

Attacks are being carried out in incremental values in different phases. Attackers start at one DDoS volume, increase to another point and then stop. The next attack starts from the last ...