Telstra hit by denial of service attack, eastern states affected; Optus launches 5G in home for wholesale partners; Big US travel management firm CWT pays out US$4.5m to ransomware gang

Australia's eastern states have been hit by an outage on Sunday morning after the country's biggest telecommunications provider Telstra was hit by a massive distributed denial of service.

A big US travel management company CWT was hit by ransomware and agreed to pay a ransom to the cyber criminals behind the attack.
Clinching 99 commercial 5G agreements or contracts with unique operators appears to have done little for the bottom line of Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson in the second quarter of 2020, with the company just about managing to match its revenue in the corresponding quarter of 2019.
The number of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the first half of the year has fallen slightly but there has been a rise in ransomware attacks and impersonation attempts.
Much as it did in global shipments for the second quarter, Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has done likewise in China, leading its home market by shipping 40.2 million units in the quarter and extending its market share to a massive 44%. There was a broad swathe of daylight between Huawei and second-placed vivo.
Optus has announced it is rolling out to its wholesale post-paid partners the ability to enable and purchase services from Optus to offer 5G Home Broadband to their customers.
There has been a marked increase in use of the crypto-ransomware WastedLocker in the first six months of 2020, the Russian security firm Kaspersky claims, with the most recent use being against and wearable technology specialist Garmin.
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