Security News

Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers (Threatpost)
2016-10-22 10:00

Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.

Double-dip Internet-of-Things botnet attack felt across the Internet (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-21 21:36

Battling the Botnet Armies (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-18 13:36

Mirai DDoS botnet powers up, infects Sierra Wireless gateways (ZDNet)
2016-10-17 11:06

130,000 Avtech IP cameras, DVRs can be easily roped into IoT botnets (Help Net Security)
2016-10-12 18:51

Security researcher Gergely Eberhardt has unearthed over dozen of vulnerabilities in most IP cameras, NVRs and DVRs by Taiwanese manufacturer Avtech, including things like plaintext storage of...

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.

Serious Flaws Expose AVTECH Devices to IoT Botnets (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-11 13:08

Over 500,000 IoT Devices Vulnerable to Mirai Botnet (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-07 17:37

Mirai IoT Botnet Not Only Contributor in Massive DDoS Attack: Akamai (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-06 16:37

IoT Botnets Are The New Normal of DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-10-05 12:51

DVR’s, IP-enabled cameras, home cable equipment and many other IOT connected devices are that latest in potent DDoS tools available to attackers.