jervybingly

That map is so fascinating. I've had it on one screen for about twelve hours now, while I work on another one. Things have calmed down considerably for the time being, but I wonder what will happen when the NYSC opens in two hours. Is anyone hearing this on their news? I hear news about the Chinese bubble having burst, but not one word about cyber warfare ongoing.

gryph0n

Just as an update the attack is still ongoing.

BeerBaron

Normally I would say it's nothing to really see here, because it's not uncommon to see something like this. What is curious is that the majority is originating from China. Nah, not curious, that is damn interesting. Also damn interesting is that Norse is flagging them as unknown. Usually when it's just script kiddies it knows what's going on.

EDIT: So I decided to do a little digging. It appears Norse creates a honeypot to mimic specific network destinations to entice attacks. So, what we're seeing isn't an attack on a 'target' so much as Norse's honeypots being activated.

From their CTO: "We have a very large honeypot, where we have, at any given time, over 5m emulations towards the Internet. Meaning we emulate over 5m users, servers, infrastructures on the Internet. We mimic a bank. We put in place honeypots to mimic Microsoft Exchange servers, Linux systems, ATMs. We try to mimic as much as we can of the infrastructure online to make it look attractive to be attacked."

They also have administrative offices in St Louis and have admitted to having a lot of their honey pot location in the area in press releases.

EDIT 3: It would appear I'm on the right track Still, quite odd that this 'security company' isn't able to identify the type of attack against their own honeypots. Or maybe just not willing to put that sort of info public?

gryph0n

Also a few attack (very large in fact) originate from the netherlands and france

deathcomesilent

That website is the single coolest concept I have seen this month.

Edit: Seattle is lighting up too

poop1989

Can someone explain what I'm looking at?

untz

Norse maintains the world’s largest dedicated threat intelligence network. With over eight million sensors that emulate over six thousand applications – from Apple laptops, to ATM machines, to critical infrastructure systems, to closed-circuit TV cameras - the Norse Intelligence Network gathers data on who the attackers are and what they’re after. Norse delivers that data through the Norse Appliance, which pre-emptively blocks attacks and improves your overall security ROI, and the Norse Intelligence Service, which provides professional continuous threat monitoring for large networks.

TL;DR: They track attackers and who they are attacking. More or less.

Source: Their own website.

Phekka

Fascinating. NYSE, United Airlines, so what's in St Louis? It will be interesting to see all these brushed off as unrelated, but in the spirit of /v/conspiracy I'd just like to say I'm looking forward to the rest of the day.

tothetop

Boeing's Defense, Space and Security division is headquartered there. Also, Boeing is on the NYSE and provides almost 80% of United's planes (and also used to be the same company as United until it was separated by the Air Mail Act in 1934).

No idea if any of this is relevant or points to anything, but just some commonalities between the three.

deathcomesilent

I've noticed Seattle getting a lot of heat as well, do those commonalities carry through to that area at all?

tothetop

Boeing's Commercial Airplane Division is headquartered there and they have two factories in the Seattle area, one of which is the largest building by volume in the world. So I guess they could? The Commercial Airplane Division deals with selling airplanes which I would assume be a large portion of their relationship with United and could be connected with the NYSE because it's their plane selling division.

Honestly, it seems like Boeing has a ton of shit in the Seattle area. Those are just what I found on a quick look and thought were interesting.

deathcomesilent

Great research!

I wonder if china has a specific company that is competing for Boeing market share, seems like there would be at least one...

That still leaves a question of how "they" would gain that market share. I guess we can only hypothesize so far without knowing the nature of these attacks.

I'm gonna have to do some more digging when I'm back at my computer.

gryph0n

I mean boeing is in stl and a few other large corps

boltsand

Yup, Edward Jones, as well as Monsanto.

drbarke

Yeah, strange isn't it. I think they might be trying to crash the Fed Reserve in STL.

Phekka

Ah, there's a reasonable explanation! Continue following the money, I guess...