A cyber attack believed to have stated on 25th Oct has crippled Burma’s internet. It’s a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from enslaved PCs all over the world. These are usually unprotected home PCs that would have been infected at any time but then left by the attackers in readiness to be triggered into action. The criminal attackers provide cyber attack services to clients at a cost.
It is speculated that the attack has been orchestrated by the Burmese government to prevent communications with the outside world during a rigged election.
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