Hundreds of thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office broadband users are knocked off the internet by cyber-attack that seizes control of their routers

The attack affected 100,000 Post Office customers on Sunday and up to 360,000 TalkTalk customers across the UK today. It used a piece of malware known as the Mirai worm, which is spread via compromised computers and works by taking control of devices running the Linux operating system and using them to knock services offline.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Daily Mail