Meta and its associated sites were reportedly taken down this morning. Cyberint (Cyberint.com) reported that three threat actor groups – Skynet, Godzilla, and Anonymous Sudan – claimed that they had shut down Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Although reports surfaced as early as 10 am Eastern Time, Ookla’s Downdector site showed a massive spike in outages reported at approximately 11 a.m. ET.
Source: downdetector.com
The outages were sporadic, with Canadian users in Ottawa and Toronto reporting outages, but other were unaffected.
Source: downdetector.com
While the focus of the attack was clearly the Meta sites, a quick review showed that a vast number of sites reported a spike in service interruption at the same time, although to a far lesser degree than the Meta sites, which were the main sites affected. For example, Facebook Canada showed a reported 125,000 outages and Facebook U.S. a reported 560,000 outages.  But even sites like YouTube showed a spike in outages, although at much lower level.
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