Uberglobal suffers short DDoS attack

 A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting one customer has been blamed for a 78 minute degradation of service at hosting firm, Uberglobal yesterday.

The incident was first reported at 11am (AEST) as a “high impact” incident affecting all services, according to Uberglobal’s status advisory.

“For a period of about an hour this morning, corresponding to that service status message, one of our clients was the target of a distributed denial of service attack,” Uber CEO Michael McGoogan told iTnews. “Inside of that response window we were able to mitigate the attack by blackholing that individual client and working with our upstream providers to block it at our border and all the way back out of the network.”