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Griffinsauce · on June 24, 2019

"unrelated" being a key word there. My first thought was this might be a state level attack (or warning shot)

dang · on June 24, 2019

In the case of sensational flamewar topics, we can presume that it's unrelated pending some evidence of a relation.

throwawaywego · on June 24, 2019

Me too. But it is a mere suspicion. We know that:

- GRU has been stepping up its attacks on the West (anti-doping, chemical weapons, MH17 investigation)

- US, Britain, and Israel attacked Iran with Stuxnet

- Iran retaliated with cyber attacks on banks and electrical grids

- Iran downed a drone

- Number stations go crazy

- US almost goes for military strike, but Trump calls it off and orders US Cyber Command to cyber-attack Iran, with focus on missile systems and spy networks.

- BGP route leak (Allegheny Technologies Inc. caused the leak, and was a target for Titan Rain around 2014).

- Dutch payment - and emergency response network goes down.

Edit: According to a KPN spokesperson: "We have an indication of the cause, but a lot remains unclear. Anyway, this was not the result of a hack."