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TalkTalk routers taken out in Mirai cyber attack

01 December 2016 • 2 min read

Kcom, Home Telecom and Post Office Telecom also reportedly under fire from Mirai-compromised devices

TalkTalk has come under fire from a cyber attack believed to be of the same type that took out up to 900,000 users of Germany's Deutsche Telekom last week. It comes after Post Office Telecom adm...

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