New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

Banks and post offices in New Zealand have been hit by a cyber offensive, according to reports, consisting of sustained DDoS attacks against a number of critical online services. The onslaught appear to be a continuation of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) blitzes against Vocus, the nation's third-largest ISP, as we …

[Anonymous Coward]

New Zealand's bad news might be our good news?

We just had a hurricane swing through, knocking the power out everywhere and now that businesses, schools, and local government offices are getting back online I was expecting to see a normal steep increase in malware deliveries but it's been strange, the daily infection email attempts are just normal - no increase at all. In the past we've always seen a ton of malware and phishing emails delivered after we get hard weather in the USA. I wonder if they are busy working on New Zealand instead of the US?

[Anonymous Coward]

DNS

It was DNS, its always DNS

[Youngone]

Still Happening

I can't access my accounts via the Android banking app and my bank's website has a message asking for patience, so it is clearly ongoing.

I am glad I don't work for the bank's online team, they must be do it tough right now.

[Winkypop]

The great malevolent bully

A corrupting regional influence.

[Yes Me]

Nobody from government will say a word

"Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it"

Maybe they don't know?