A large distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) is impacting Afrihost and other Internet service providers in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Afrihost alerted its subscribers on Sunday that its network is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues.<\/p>\n
Afrihost CEO Gian Visser said<\/strong><\/a> on Sunday evening that while the attacks continued, the severity and impact of the attack have decreased.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like the attacks are destined to several networks advertised by Liquid Telecom and are not specific to Echo or Afrihost,\u201d Visser said.<\/p>\n Liquid Telecom could not be immediately reached to confirm whether it is the main target of the attack.<\/p>\n He explained that locally hosted content like Netflix, Gmail and YouTube should be working without problems.<\/p>\n \u201cInternationally hosted game servers and other international resources will remain an issue until the attacks go away or are well mitigated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Afrihost said its own technical staff and those from Echotel and Liquid Telecom are working on mitigating this attack as effectively and quickly as possible.<\/p>\n The latest DDoS attack follows a large attack on local banks which caused service disruptions in some cases.<\/p>\n The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) said on Friday the South African banking industry has been hit by a wave of DDoS attacks targeting consumer-facing services.<\/p>\n These attacks have also been accompanied by a ransom note, according to SABRIC.<\/p>\n DDoS attacks have become a major problem for South African companies lately, especially Internet service providers (ISPs) and local banks.<\/p>\n Numerous South African ISPs recently reported being targeted by DDoS attacks which caused major service interruptions.<\/p>\n These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks began targeting local banks on 23 October 2019, resulting in interruptions to services such as online banking.<\/p>\n Standard Bank and other local banks experienced problems with online and mobile app banking following the start of the DDoS attack, but most of these services have since been restored.<\/p>\n A large DDoS attack is impacting various networks in South Africa, including Afrihost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":295532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1669,2242,1988,3116],"class_list":["post-324955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-afrihost","tag-ddos","tag-gian-visser","tag-liquid-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324957,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324955\/revisions\/324957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Spate of DDoS attacks<\/h3>\n
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