Security News > 2015 > May > Default Credentials Lead to Massive DDoS-For-Hire Botnet (Threatpost)
2015-05-12 20:44
Tens of thousands of home and office-based routers have been hijacked over the last several months to stage a distributed denial of service attack campaign.
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http://threatpost.com/default-credentials-lead-to-massive-ddos-for-hire-botnet/112767
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