Mt Ruapehu is the latest to be attacked by cyber attacks; fight back

Mt Ruapehu was the latest Kiwi company to be attacked by cybercriminals, with its website paralyzed this morning.

However, the company claims that the attack was short-lived and was able to get its systems up and running “in a few minutes.”

The attack comes just hours after the MetService website went offline, at around 7:30 a.m., after a second day of cyberattacks.

The forecaster ominously said he expected more. Since then, he had created a temporary basic page with the weather of the districts.

The coups came after many other Kiwi businesses were targeted, most notably the NZX, which was hit for five days, Westpac, TSB, Stuff and RNZ.

Fonterra told the Herald that it successfully repelled a cyber attack last month.

A post on Mt Ruapehu’s Facebook page said today that it was attacked at 10 am as they were about to release the parking lots, its “reservable parking system was deliberately blocked by an external cyber attack (DDoS).”

“The good news is that this attack eventually failed as our parking system was back online in a few minutes, however we can see that this caused some disruption to their booking trip. The cyber security team is following up. with the attacker’s ISP (Internet Service Provider) “.

The company apologized for the attack and the next launch of its parking lot, scheduled for 6 p.m., will continue as planned.

Security firm NortonLifeLocks said criminals prepare for a DDoS attack by taking over thousands of computers.

They were often referred to as “zombie computers.” They form what is known as a “botnet” or botnet. These are used to flood specific websites, servers, and networks with more data than they can accommodate.

A “volumetric” or volume-based DDoS attack, which was apparently the variant that hit the NZX, sends out massive amounts of traffic to overwhelm a network’s bandwidth, NortonLifeLock says.

The company says that a DDoS attack must be repelled at the Internet service provider level, which often involves temporarily blocking traffic from certain IP addresses.