Internet addresses that Africa’s registry tried to seize used in cyberattack on African journalists

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Internet addresses that Africa’s registry tried to seize used in cyberattack on African journalists
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Internet Protocol addresses AFRINIC tried to seize in 2021 were used in a sustained denial-of-service attack against a publication that focuses on the human rights of journalists.

. This independent trade union covers issues relating to journalists’ human rights in the country.

“In both cases, the large volume of malicious traffic affected the services of other hosted customers and the hosting providers therefore brought the website down to minimise the collateral damage.”Committee to Protect Journalists“A couple of hours after the migration was completed, the denial of service attacks started again,” Qurium said.The graph below shows the attack traffic on 19 August and the morning of 20 August, plotting requests received in 5-second intervals.

Assuming each IP address is worth $40 on the open market — and at an exchange rate of R19 per dollar — Cloud Innovation’s IP addresses are worth at least R4.8 billion. Others would argue that IP addresses don’t work that way. For example, Google’s IP addresses allocated by the North American regional registry work from anywhere in the world — including Africa.

The only way to elect a board is to approach the courts of Mauritius, where Afrinic is headquartered, and obtain an order to that effect.When Qurium attempted to report the DDoS attack to Cloud Innovation’s designated abuse email, it was met with silence. If a customer gets too many abuse reports against their sub-allocated IP addresses, Heng said they will end the lease agreement with them, much like a landlord dealing with a problem tenant.MyBroadband tested Cloud Innovation’s abuse contact again on Thursday, 7 September, and received no response.Another issue Qurium encountered during its analysis was that the country-level location data for the IP addresses used in the attack was inconsistent across databases.

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