New Zealand stock exchange crashed by cyberattacks for fourth day in a row as spy agency seeks answers

Cyberattacks forced New Zealand’s stock exchange to halt trading for a fourth straight day on Friday, with the country’s spy agency called in to help combat the ongoing security breaches.“We are currently experiencing connectivity issues which appear similar to those caused by severe DDoS attacks from offshore this week,” NZX said in a statement.Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involve disrupting computer networks by flooding them with traffic. There have been similar temporary…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3099182/new-zealand-stock-exchange-crashed-cyberattacks-fourth-day