Responding to the news that the company (Komodia) behind the Superfish technology that caused Lenovo great headache this week is under a DDoS attack, Dave Larson, CTO of Corero Network Security, said:
“Komodia appears to be the latest victim of a DDoS attack, rendering their website basically inaccessible, accept for a slimmed down landing page notifying users of the issue. There has been a lot of social media activity pointing the finger back to Komodia, as a controversial technology component in the Superfish visual search software that was pre-installed on Lenovo devices.
"Apparently, someone is looking to send a message to Komodia and their means of communication is quite aggressive. Rendering the website unresponsive for typical Internet activity is becoming a primary means for cyber warfare and this scenario is a prime example. While traditional security technologies, and network personnel are trying to deal with the outage caused by a DDoS attack, the business remains effectively offline. Moreover, in many cases online businesses are left extremely vulnerable to more sophisticated accompanying attacks and techniques hiding within the DDoS smokescreen and intended for more reprehensible purposes. It will be interesting to see how this continues to unfold.”