Russian telecom giant repels DDoS attacks on country’s 5 largest financial institutions
RT.com
9 Dec, 2016
Russian telecom giant Rostelecom has thwarted DDoS-attacks on the five largest banks and financial institutions in the country, the company said in a statement.
All the attacks were recorded on December 5, 2016, the longest of them lasting for over two hours, Rostelecom said on Friday.
“The analysis of the attack sources carried out by Rostelecom specialists revealed that the traffic was generated from the home routers of users who are usually referred to IoT devices,” Muslim Medzhlumov, director of the Cybersecurity Center for Rostelecom, said in a statement, published on the company’s website.
“A distinctive feature of the attacks was that they were organized with the help of devices that support the CWMP Management Protocol (TR-069). A few weeks ago, a serious vulnerability was revealed in the implementation of this protocol on a number of devices from different manufacturers, which allows attackers [to] organize DDoS-attacks. At the beginning of last week, the largest German operator Deutsche Telecom was subjected to an attack on users’ home devices, as well as the Irish provider Eircom,” he explained.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on December 2 that it had received intelligence of foreign intelligence services preparing large-scale cyber-attacks in Russia in the period starting from December 5, 2016, aimed at destabilizing Russia’s financial system and the activities of a number of major Russian banks.
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