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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University were often able to find default passwords in under 30 minutes with a simple Google search. Continue reading The password to your IoT device is just a Google search away
This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts. Continue reading In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More
This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts. Continue reading In Wake of ‘Biggest-Ever’ DDoS Attack, Experts Say Brace For More
The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more extensive and is most likely to grow exponentially in 2018.
Although the original creators of Mirai DDoS botnet have already been arrested and jailed, the variants of the infamous IoT malware are … Continue reading New Mirai Okiru Botnet targets devices running widely-used ARC Processors
Although the original creators of the infamous IoT malware Mirai have already been arrested and sent to jail, the variants of the notorious botnet are still in the game due to the availability of its source code on the Internet.
Hackers have widely us… Continue reading Satori IoT Botnet Exploits Zero-Day to Zombify Huawei Routers
The U.S. federal officials have arrested three hackers who have pleaded guilty to computer-crimes charges for creating and distributing Mirai botnet that crippled some of the world’s biggest and most popular websites by launching the massive DDoS attac… Continue reading Three Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating IoT-based Mirai DDoS Botnet
While tracking botnet activity on their honeypot traffic, security researchers at Chinese IT security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered a new variant of Mirai—the well known IoT botnet malware that wreaked havoc last year.
Last week, researchers notice… Continue reading New Mirai Botnet Variant Found Targeting ZyXEL Devices In Argentina
Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet.
Dubbed ‘IoT_reaper,’ first spotted in September by researchers at firm Qihoo 360, the new malware no longer depends on cracking weak passwords; instead, it exploits
Continue reading New Rapidly-Growing IoT Botnet Threatens to Take Down the Internet
An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as “Daniel K.,” pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers.
According to reports in the German press, the British ma… Continue reading British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom
A hacker that goes by the name “BestBuy” admitted to a German court that he was behind an attack last year that knocked over a million Deutsche Telekom customers offline. Continue reading Hacker Admits to Mirai Attack Against Deutsche Telekom