Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS

Hangzhou Xiongmai said that it will recall millions of cameras sold in the U.S. in response to Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn that kept a number of web-based services such as Twitter, Github and others offline for much of the day. The Chinese manufacturer sells OEM white-label...

Chinese Electronics Firm to Recall its Smart Cameras recently used to Take Down Internet

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 Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against...

An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today

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, PayPal, Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, and Spotify. But ho...

DYN Confirms DDoS Attack Knocking Out Twitter, Spotify Other Major Sites

Update DNS provider Dyn has confirmed two massive distributed denial of service attacks against its servers Friday impacting many of its customers including Twitter, Spotify and GitHub. The attacks came in two waves, one early Friday morning and a second just a few hours later. “This attack is...

Mirai Bots More Than Double Since Source Code Release

The Mirai malware continues to recruit vulnerable IoT devices into botnets at a record pace, one that’s only gone up since the source code for Mirai was made public two weeks ago. Level 3 Communications, a telecommunications company and Internet service provider in Colorado, has identified the...

Global actually has 2 0 0 million IoT devices there is also 1 2 years ago OpenSSH“hardcore”vulnerability is! - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

IoT, in the early years, this also slightly strange term, and now has gone to the all aspects of our lives, such as the cloud monitor, the network of industrial control devices, the satellite antenna device, and so on. However, IoT security is also have troubling one problem, most of the safety...

Foreign hackers found the Hikvision remote system XXE vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

IOT development and threats to security always go hand in hand。 Two months ago, I want to study network camera, and then on Amazon bought a relatively cheap, by Hikvision OEM production Elisa Live 720p HD IP Camera. When I was in the crack Elisa camera try to get the password information in the...

Sierra Wireless Warns Cellular Data Gear Targeted by Mirai Malware

Sierra Wireless is warning customers to change default factory credentials on its AireLink gatway communications gear or risk being infected by Mirai malware. Mirai malware scans the Internet for IoT gear such as DVRs and IP-enabled cameras and other devices that are protected by default or...

1 2 years ago SSH vulnerability can also? IOT device security concern-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Overview According to foreign media the latest report, Akamai is the company's security research experts this week found a new type of attack. According to the security expert described, the attacker can use the one there for twelve years, SSH vulnerability, and with some security of the weaker...

On IoT Botnets, StrongPity, and Nuclear Power Plant 'Disruptions'

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the nuclear power plant ‘disruption,’ the StrongPity APT group, and the proliferation of IoT botnets. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapOctober142016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

12-Year-Old SSH Bug Exposes More than 2 Million IoT Devices

Are your internet-connected devices spying on you? Perhaps. We already know that the Internet of Thing IoT devices are so badly insecure that hackers are adding them to their botnet network for launching Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against target services. But, these connected...

Old SSH Vulnerability at Center of Credential-Stuffing Attacks

Connected devices aren’t just for DDoS attacks anymore. Researchers at Akamai this week exposed how attackers are using a 12-year-old SSH vulnerability in combination with weak or default credentials to compromise an array of IOT and home networking devices. Those connected things are then being...

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets

The IoT botnet behind some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic, generating more than one million requests per second in some cases, in order to bring down web applications. The attacks were recorded prior to the release of the source code fuelin...

When DVRs Attack: Post IoT Attack Analysis

Researchers examining the aftermath of last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack against KrebsOnSecurity.com and French hosting giant OVH have identified key flaws that contributed significantly in those attacks and have unearthed new details on how the assaults were carried out...

Challenge! WIN $50,000 for Finding Non-traditional Ways to Detect Vulnerable IoT Devices

If you are concerned about the insecurity of Internet of Things, have good hands at programming and know how to hack smart devices, then you can grab an opportunity to earn $50,000 in prize money for discovering the non-traditional ways to secure IoT devices. Internet of Things IoT market is goin...

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks

If you’ve been on the wrong end of what passes for a modern-day DDoS attack, you’re well familiar with the firepower of the almighty DVR. That’s right, the innocuous set-top box responsible for the posterity of your Game of Thrones seasons 1-6 is behind some of the biggest swarming attacks agains...

Cloud, IoT Big Factors in Annual BSIMM 7 Report

Bad software equals insecure software, and companies don’t have to accept this status quo. That’s both the takeaway and goal of Cigital’s seventh annual Building Security in Maturity Model report released Tuesday. The report reveals that the cloud, application containers, and agile software...

Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

Source Code for IoT botnet responsible for World's largest DDoS Attack released Online

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 that reached over one Terabit per second 1 Tbps,...

World's largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices

Do you know — Your Smart Devices may have inadvertently participated in a record-breaking largest cyber attack that Internet has just witnessed. If you own a smart device like Internet-connected televisions, cars, refrigerators or thermostats, you might already be part of a botnet of millions of...