Was There A Major DDoS Cyberattack On The U.S. Yesterday?

This site show a random sample of global DDoS traffic badly plotted on a world map. It does not indicate an attack against the US, it lacks context to make any inferences at all (other than DDoS attacks are happening all day every day). pic.twitter.com/8H9PqlIjbd

— MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog) June 15, 2020

Forbes: No, The U.S. Has Not Suffered The Biggest Cyber-Attack In History: Here’s What Actually Happened

As hundreds of thousands of people reported mobile carriers and internet services down, and 'DDoS' started trending on Twitter, 'Anonymous' laid the blame on China and suggested a major cyber-attack was underway. Here's what actually happened.

Early in the afternoon of June 15, people across the U.S. started noticing that they were unable to make calls or send text messages. Customer complaints soon popped up on social media suggesting multiple mobile carriers were all experiencing outages. But that wasn't all: internet service providers, the social media platforms themselves, and online services from gaming to banking were all apparently going down like dominoes.

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Update: No, There Wasn't a Major DDoS Cyberattack on the U.S.—Despite 'Anonymous' Claims, Experts Say -- Newsweek

WNU Editor: I noticed a lot of people talking about this yesterday. Fortunately. There is nothing to it.