4 Sep
2021
4 Sep
'21
12:01 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 15:04:27 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Vocus, which owns Orcon, Slingshot, Flip and Stuff Fibre (totalling 15% of NZ broadband users), has suffered a DDoS attack ...
Yeah, that knocked me off the net quite nicely...
Seems the attackers were targeting one particular Vocus customer <https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/03/nz_outage/>. And guess what, it wasn’t the attack itself that caused (most of?) the disruption, it was the anti-DDoS rule that they put in to block it.