Major cyber attack is disrupt of internet,

Disrupts internet service across Europe and US,

US officials are investigating multiple attacks that caused widespread online disruption on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security has begun an investigation into the DDoS distributed denial of service attack, the Guardian confirmed.
Cyber attacks targeting a little known internet infrastructure company, Dyn, disrupted access to dozens of websites on Friday, preventing some users from accessing PayPal, Twitter and Spotify.
Dyn, whose customers include some of the world's most widely visited websites, said it did not know who was responsible for the outages that began in the Eastern United States, and then spread to other parts of the country and overseas.
The outages were intermittent, making it difficult to identify all the victims. But technology news site Gizmodo named some five dozen sites that were affected by the attack. They included CNN, HBO Now, Mashable, the New York Times, People.com, the Wall Street Journal and Yelp.
Internet traffic company Dyn on Friday warned a third cyberattack is currently ongoing, hours after websites and services across the East Coast were initially shut down.
 Dyn was investigating another attack on Friday afternoon that caused similar problems to the outages experienced in the morning.

The firm said it was still trying to determine how the attack led to the outage. “Our first priority over the last couple of hours has been our customers and restoring their performance,” said executive vice-president Scott Hilton.