Security News > 2016 > October > IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets (Threatpost)
2016-10-11 15:52
The IoT botnet behind the some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic in Layer 7 attacks.
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http://threatpost.com/iot-botnet-uses-http-traffic-to-ddos-targets/121199/
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