There are fears of a widespread Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack after a number of websites went down this morning, including Kiwibank, ANZ, NZ Post and MetService. Daniel Ayers, a cyber security expert, told the Herald on Monday he believed Kiwibank had been subject to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack. Vocus had a major outage on Friday after it came under a DDoS cyber attack. Ayers said history showed from last year's NZX cyber attack that a DDoS attack can take out organisations other than the ones that are targetted as it could overload the provider's capacity. Ayers said if it was a DDoS attack it was not a fraud threat in terms of someone stealing people's money.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 08, 2021 00:00 UTC