Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: Caiway
Affected country: Netherlands
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Caiway is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.