Security News > 2021 > September > New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation's third largest internet provider
Parts of New Zealand were cut off from the digital world today after a major local ISP was hit by an aggressive DDoS attack.
Vocus - the country's third-largest internet operator which is behind brands including Orcon, Slingshot and Stuff Fibre - confirmed the cyberattack originated at one of its customers.
According to a network status update, the company said: "This afternoon a Vocus customer was under DDoS attack... A DDoS mitigation rule was updated to our Arbor DDoS platform to block the attack for the end customer."
We've asked Arbor DDoS protection vendor Netscout for comment.
Elsewhere, earlier this week two UK VoIP operators had their services trampled following a DDoS attack that is believed to have been sparked by a Russian cyber gang which called for a "Colossal ransom."
Yesterday evening, a Sky spokesperson told us that the "Majority of Sky customers impacted by the intermittent issues with Broadband and Talk should now have their service restored."
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