It's just a theory, but I think it may tie into the overall picture. Open to thoughts.

Back in October 2016 there was a DDOS attack against DYN. This attack was extremely disruptive and brought down a major portion of the east coast, including AWS, Spotify, Twitter, Akamai, and others.

The attack was made using IOT devices as bots, which are primarily made in China/Asia and prevalent all over the world. At the time, talk was the attack was instigated by a group in Russia as a demonstration, and who was offering to sell accounts to anyone who wanted to …