Cybersecurity
New Zealand Deploys Spy Agency as Hackers Hit Stock Market
- Exchange crippled for a fourth day by attacks from abroad
- Group claiming to be Fancy Bear may be responsible: ZDNet
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New Zealand called in its spy agency and activated security crisis plans to help defend the stock exchange from overseas attack, after hackers disrupted the market for a fourth straight day.
“We as a government are treating this very seriously,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson said Friday, adding agencies would coordinate to deal with the threat. “There are limits to what I can say today about the action the government is taking behind the scenes due to significant security considerations.”