DDoS attack put out heating of apartments for the weekend in Finland
▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2016/11/07/ddos-attack-leaves-finnish-apartments-without-heat
Both buildings are managed by Valtia, a facilities services company headquarted in Lappeenranta. Volta CEO Simo Rounela confirmed to Metropolitan.fi that the central heating and hot water systems in both buildings had been attacked. In attempt to fight off the attack, the systems rebooted — and subsequently got stuck in an endless loop. This is precisely the kind of thing that Chester Wisniewski at SophosLabs was concerned with when he urged makers (and users) of industrial control systems to take meaningful steps toward improving security.
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/11/08/winter-denial-of-service-attac.html
A DDoS attack that incidentally affected the internet connections for at least two housing blocks in Lappeenranta, Finland caused their heating systems to shut down, leaving their residents without heat in subzero weather.
After an hour, maintenance crews went on-site and shut down the internet links and switched the heating systems over to manual, restoring service.
The attack brought down the buildings’ access to DNS, causing the automated systems to cycle every five minutes, until the heat, ventilation and water all shut down.