Items tagged with krebsonsecurity

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 19, 2017

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

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 per second of traffic. Since that time, Mirai has “zombified” hundreds of... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Mon, Oct 03, 2016

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

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 traffic using a horde of zombie IoT devices (the attack was so devastating that... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Sep 27, 2016

Latest IoT DDoS Attack Dwarfs Krebs Takedown At Nearly 1Tbps Driven By 150K Devices

If you thought that the massive DDoS attack earlier this month on Brian Krebs’ security blog was record-breaking, take a look at what just happened to France-based hosting provider OVH. OVH was the victim of a wide-scale DDoS attack that was carried via network of over 152,000 IoT devices. According to OVH founder... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 26, 2016

Your IoT Device Could Be Part Of A DDoS Botnet, Here's How To Shut It Down

The web is becoming the wild, wild west all over again it seems. You could argue the Internet's always been a potentially dangerous place, but with the proliferation of smart devices becoming increasingly commonplace, cybercriminals now have more points of entry into home networks than ever before. Smart home... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Sep 24, 2016

Today the bad guys have won. Not the war, mind you, but a skirmish with renowned security journalist Brian Krebs, author of The New York Times bestseller "Spam Nation," a former writer for the The Washington Post, and owner of KrebsOnSecurity, a popular security blog that's no longer live after cloud service provider... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Dec 04, 2014

Bebe Stores Inc. Latest Retailer Hit With Customer Credit Card Breach

Target, Home Depot, Sears, and Kmart have all come under attack in the past year, with hackers breaching their insufficiently protected internal networks to obtain customer credit card data. The Home Depot breach was the largest, with 53 million email addresses and 56 million customer credit and debit card... Read more...