It almost feels like the setup for a Twilight Zone episode, or Village of the Damned. Liberia is cut off from the rest of the world - and when they restore the connection, the people are somehow different. They no longer need computers to surf the internet, or eyes to see.
Mirai IoT botnet blamed for 'smashing Liberia off the internet'
The West African country of Liberia was allegedly flooded offline this week. Early indications are that miscreants blasted the nation's rudimentary net infrastructure using the same method that rendered hundreds of the world's most popular websites inaccessible at the end of October. Once again the Mirai IoT botnet has been …
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Saturday 5th November 2016 18:12 GMT Brian Miller
DDOS or stupid ISP
So actually, we really don't know if it was a DDOS or their ISP. The ISP could have claimed that they were offline due to a DDOS attack, when in reality a cable could have been unplugged.
"While it is likely a local operator might have experienced a brief outage, we have no knowledge of a national Internet outage and there are no data to substantial [sic] that."
As far as targets go, Liberia isn't one I would expect.