Intermittent DDoS attacks one of the largest Mirai malware powered botnets targeted Liberia, the African nation, ended yesterday. Could this be a warning for a bigger attack yet to come?
Researcher Kevin Beaumont identified the unusual attack on Thursday and gave the news that the registrar eNOM has disabled the domain administrating the attacker’s C&C (Command and Control) infrastructure; that domain antecedes the DDoS attacks on DynDNS.
Although the attacks against Libera have ceased, they did interrupt the internet service of the entire country, and one of the mobile services providers informed the IDG news service the DDoS attacks were ‘killing’ its business and revenues.
The security architect at a private U.K. company, Kevin Beaumont, said that Liberia has only one undersea cable that is servicing the Internet connectivity to the entire country with a capacity of just 5.12 Tbps. The cable is 6,000 meters below on sea level and provides internet connectivity to more than 23 countries across Africa and Europe.
