Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: New Zealand's stock exchange
Affected country: New Zealand
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: New Zealand's stock exchange (NZX) has been impacted by aÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â 'ÃÆÃ'ÃÂ¢Ã¢'Â¬ÃÂ 'ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃÂ¢ÃÂ¢'ÃÂ¬Ã'ÃÂ 'ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â '''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â 'ÃÆÃ'ÃÂ¢Ã¢'Â¬ÃÂ ''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â ''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ ''ÃÆÃ''ÃÆ'Ã'ÃÂ distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack during the last two days, forcing it to shut down trading until the connectivity issues were resolved.