The site of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) was out of the air in the early afternoon of Friday (22). The fall of the service came a day after the hacker collective Anonymous inciting attacks against the main operators in the country in retaliation for the announcement of the adoption of limited data franchises in fixed Internet packages.
G1 contacted the agency, which did not respond to the publication of this text. The service was back up around 13:20.
Anonymous published on Thursday (21) on YouTube a video declaring “war on operators.” Calling the initiative “#OpOperadoras”, the group included in the Pastebin, a discussion forum used by hackers, a step-by-step how to perform distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS, its acronym in English). This scam is to target the largest possible volume of access to a particular service so that it is congested and can not be accessed.
“This method is considered by many of us as a form of protest, in other words, it’s like a lot of people were in the stores phone operators and preventing the traffic of people in them (sic), “explains Anonymous. The tutorial includes not only instructions on how to carry out the attack but also the tools that can be downloaded on the internet. The group also lists some IP numbers (Internet protocols that act as addresses on the network) of the main operators in the country.
The distribution of this booklet may not be related to the instability of the Anatel site. In addition, Anonymous not claimed responsibility. Information of a technical telecommunications agency, however, realize that the problem that took the page of air public agency was a DDoS. The attack was described by him in the forum “fell” for the exchange of information on unstable sites and maintained by Registro.br, responsible for the distribution of domains in Brazil.
According to the text, since the fourth -feira (20), Anatel’s website has received waves of large access volumes that “last for several hours.”
“most of the source IPs are international, probably some botnet hired for that” suggests technical, reporting peaks of attempts to access the order page 40 Gigabits. The coach confirmed to G1 that the site crashed at around 12pm the farm.
Anatel and data franchise
This week, Anatel intervened in the controversy of the adoption of data deductibles for fixed broadband plans. The agency issued an interim decision to suspend any restriction on access to those who exceed the data limit hired these packages to operators create mechanisms so that customers can keep pace with consumption.
The president of Anatel João Rezende, said imposing that companies only offer broadband without limit can raise the price or reduce the quality of service.
“the easiest speech to Anatel would put the internet has to be unlimited. But then the company could increase prices, reduce speed and it would end up hurting the consumer. We also have to think about the sector’s sustainability, “said the G1 .
Rezende said the fixed Internet unlimited as business model is not finished, as some companies may still adopt this strategy. However, he argued that in the long run, there may be difficulty in sustaining this type of service, since the current infrastructure does not support the unrestricted use of broadband for all users.
Limit is allowed
the imposition of fixed internet usage limit is allowed by regulation of the 2001 industry NET already sells fixed broadband plans along these lines since 2004. Still, the matter turned controversial after of Vivo announced in February that would adopt franchises in new contracts that service. Vivo acquired weight in the fixed broadband sector after merging with GTV in 2014.
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