Last week hackers forced Brian Krebs to take down his security journalism site because of a large scale Denial of Service Attack – likely one of the largest ever seen.<\/p>\n
Krebs on his website KrebsOnSecurity.com has a long history of exposing DDOS cyber criminals. This was one of the biggest attacks in the history of the Internet.<\/p>\n
Estimates go as high as 1.5 million devices begin used to make this attack. The attack had a tremendous amount of power behind it.<\/p>\n
According to Level 3, the largest part of the Botnet used for the attack was made mostly of internet-connected cameras and DVR’s made by DAHUA Technology, a Chinese manufacturer, with a subsidiary in California. The hackers found a vulnerability which affects most of DAHUA\u2019s cameras that allow anyone to take control of the devices by entering an extra-long overflowing password. The botnet also includes other devices like home routers and Linux computers.<\/p>\n
Malware was then installed on the devices to make them part of the attack botnet. Similar botnets have been used both DDOS attacks and ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n
The hackers used a malware dubbed \u201cMIRAI\u201d. MIRAI source code was initially released in 2015 and is widely available. It is written in C and designed to be very portable to different platforms.<\/p>\n
Expect to see more attacks, problems, and issues of this ilk in the future. This botnet is really large and will likely play a role in the future. If you have a camera or a DVR that has been connected to the internet, you should either dispose of it or make sure it is not infected. It is not enough to put it behind a firewall once its infected.<\/p>\n
Further Reading: Last week hackers forced Brian Krebs to take down his security journalism site because of a large scale Denial of Service Attack – likely one of the largest ever seen. …<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn\/<\/a>
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