Failed #Mirai botnet attack causes internet outage for 900,000 Germans
▻http://www.dw.com/en/deutsche-telekom-hack-part-of-global-internet-attack/a-36574934
German security experts have suggested internet outages that have hit hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were part of a worldwide attempt to hijack routing devices.
“The BSI considers this outage to be part of a worldwide attack on selected remote management interfaces of DSL routers,” the government agency said on its website.
Deutsche Telekom said the issues seemed to be connected to an attempt to make a number of customers’ routers part of the Mirai botnet.
Deutsche Telecom information page:
▻https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/information-on-current-problems-444862
Deutsche Telekom has developed a software update together with the router manufacturers which is offered for download here ▻https://www.telekom.de/stoerung