Criminals Trying to Take an Entire Country Offline with Massive DDoS Attacks

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Criminals Trying to Take an Entire Country Offline with Massive DDoS Attacks – Testing Cyber Weapons?

Cyber criminals are now using Mirai malware to take down the entire internet infrastructure of Liberia. The African nation was targeted by the same cyber weapon that caused the largest ever cyber attack of the history, just two weeks ago.

Mirai malware was used in October to launch a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that affected some of the world’s biggest online sites and services. The attack was launched using a growing network of infected internet-connected devices that sent 1.1Tbps traffic.

The source code was publicly released by a cybercriminal earlier in October, causing the East Coast cyber attack. Mirai malware is designed to scan for insecure IoT devices, using them to send massive amounts of traffic, causing service disruption.

Security experts had warned that the October DDoS attack was just a start of an expected onslaught of upcoming cyber attacks – of even larger scale. They believe that future DDoS attacks could reach to 10 Tbps traffic, enough to take down the internet infrastructure of an entire country

Is cyber attack on Liberia a test case?

Using this malware, someone is now trying to take down internet access of an entire country by launching massive DDoS attacks. Criminals have been using the same weapon over the past seven days in the continued attacks on Liberia, 500 Gbps in size. Not as large as the October cyber attack, but still among the largest.

Another Mirai botnet, known as Botnet 14, began intermittent attacks on the two Liberian companies that co-own the only fiber cable coming into the country, sending it almost entirely offline with each attack.

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Hello Dear and Esteemed friend.

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Thank you for your discretion and haste in this delicate matter.

Mbogu Obama

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Mr. Barry Hussein Soetoro

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