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Guess how many devices participated in last Friday’s massive DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn that caused vast internet outage?
Just 100,000 devices.
I did not miss any zeros.
Dyn disclosed on Wednesday that a botnet of an estimated 100,000 inte… Continue reading Friday’s Massive DDoS Attack Came from Just 100,000 Hacked IoT Devices
Attacks that took down Dyn appear to have been “rented” from multiple botnets. Continue reading How one rent-a-botnet army of cameras, DVRs caused Internet chaos
Millions of IP-enabled cameras built on gear manufactured by Hangzhou Xiongmai of China is being recalled after DDoS attacks powered by compromised IOT devices took down a major DNS provider last week. Continue reading Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS
You might be surprised to know that your security cameras, Internet-connected toasters and refrigerators may have inadvertently participated in the massive cyber attack that broke a large portion of the Internet on Friday.
That’s due to massive Distri… Continue reading Chinese Electronics Firm to Recall its Smart Cameras recently used to Take Down Internet
A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, Pay… Continue reading An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today
Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service.
Recently, the Internet witnessed a record-breaking largest… Continue reading Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline
UPDATE — How an army of million of hacked Internet-connected smart devices almost broke the Internet today.
Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service.
Recently, the Internet witnessed a record-breaking largest DDoS attack of over 1 Tbps against
Continue reading Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline
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DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others. Services have been restored as of 9:36 a.m. today. Continue reading Dyn Confirms DDoS Attack Affecting Twitter, Github, Many Others
With rapidly growing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices, they have become a much more attractive target for cybercriminals.
Just recently we saw a record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the France-based hosting provider OVH … Continue reading Source Code for IoT botnet responsible for World’s largest DDoS Attack released Online