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Cloudflare Successfully Foils Largest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded Amid Mirai Resurgence

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 20, 2021

The cybersecurity folks at Cloudflare have to be feeling like a million bucks right about now. Or make it a billion smackers. Either way, they are completely justified in reveling at staving off a massive distributed denial of service... Read more...

Netgear Posts Firmware Updates After 31 Router Models Found Vulnerable To Password Hijacking

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Jan 31, 2017

Now might be a good time for Netgear to start doubling down on security for its networking products. The folks over at Trustwave found that 31 Netgear router models are susceptible to a security vulnerability that exposes the devices’ web... Read more...

Krebs Calls Out Rutgers University Student As Author Of Mirai DDoS Botnet

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 19, 2017

The Mirai botnet started making waves publicly during the fall of 2016 with a high-profile DDoS attack on the security site KrebsOnSecurity. The DDoS attack, which was at the time the largest on record, pummeled the site with 620 gigabits... Read more...

Leet Botnet Rivals Mirai With 650 Gbps DDoS Attack On CDN And Security Service Provider Incapsula

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 28, 2016

Large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks powered by thousands and sometimes millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that have been turned into a massive botnet is something that content delivery networks (CDNs) and... Read more...

Deutsche Telekom Suspects Mirai Botnet For Internet Outage Affecting 900,000 Customers

by Brittany Goetting - Tue, Nov 29, 2016

900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were hit with an internet outage beginning on Sunday, and IT analysts have concluded that the company was the victim of a hacker attack. The 900,000 affected customers make up roughly 4.5... Read more...

Akamai Reports Global DDoS Attacks Surged 71 Percent During Q3 Thanks To Mirai Botnet

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 18, 2016

We recently witnessed a new and disturbing trend in cyber security and that is the widespread hacking of Internet connected devices to initiate DDoS attacks on an unprecedented scale. That is the method that made possible the Mirai botnet... Read more...

Chinese Manufacturer XiongMai Recalls Flawed IP Cameras That Were To Blame In Friday's IoT DDoS Attack

by Brandon Hill - Mon, Oct 24, 2016

On Friday, DNS provider Dyn was walloped by a massive DDoS botnet attack which slowed down or completely sidelined major websites like Amazon, Twitter, and The New York Times. The attack was carried out using improperly configured Internet... Read more...

Mirai IoT DDoS Botnet Source Code Reveals Specific Targeting Of Valve Source Engine Games On Steam

by Brandon Hill - Mon, Oct 03, 2016

Earlier this morning, we reported on the troubling news that the source code for the Mirai IoT DDoS botnet is now out in the open. If you recall, Miari is the botnet that was able to flood KrebsOnSecurity with 620 gigabits per second of... Read more...

It Could Get Ugly, Source Code For 'Mirai' IoT DDoS Botnet Released To The Wild

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 03, 2016

Well, this isn't good. The source code for the botnet that took KrebsOnSecurity down by tapping into an unprecedented number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been released to the public. It's availability virtually ensures that... Read more...

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