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Yoni Heisler
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Last Friday, hackers successfully managed to unleash an absolutely massive DDoS attack that swiftly knocked a number of popular websites offline, including Twitter, Spotify and even Amazon. DDoS attacks are of course nothing new, but last Friday's attack was unique insofar as it was incredibly massive and was carried out with a botnet not comprised of computers, but of Internet connected devices. We're now a few days removed from the attack and more information about how the attack was carried out is starting to emerge. Of particular interest is that last Friday's botnet was carried out by compromised DVRs and webcam devices infected by a piece of malware called Mirai. The malware itself isn't particularly sophisticated but it's tremendously effective as Internet connected devices often have poor security and easy to guess default passwords. (more…)
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