Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2016
Mirai botnet was used to power a massive DDoS attack against Liberia causing the Internet outage in the entire country with financially devastating results. Mirai is the malware that a few weeks ago caused a massive Internet outage in the US. Mirai was first spotted this summer by the security expert MalwareMustDie, now media reported the use of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2016
Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in the source code of the Mirai botnet and devised a method to hack back it. The Mirai botnet, this name is familiar to security experts due to the massive DDoS attack that it powered against the Dyn DNS service a few days ago. The Mirai malware was first spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2016
Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your router secure? “Are we ready to live in a world where all devices are exposed to cyber attacks?” That is how I opened my presentation in QurtubaCON16 – cyber security event at Córdoba City (Spain) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2016
The security firm RSA revealed to have discovered in early October, hackers advertising access to a huge IoT botnet on an underground criminal forum. Last week, a massive DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS service, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS), caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of internet users was not able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2016
A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users was not able […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks. Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications product. The company is aware of a significant number of infections caused by the Mirai malware, a threat specifically designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2016
Exclusive: interview made by @unixfreaxjp of MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs about the Linux/NyaDrop. The latest details about this new dangerous IoT malware. After the Krebs DDoS attacks the enrollment of new IoT botnets is going to grow and new large “zombie army” made by of web-ip-cam, DVR/NVR, routers/modems are invading the cyberspace. The evidence of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2016
MITRE has challenged the security community to devise new methods that could help in detecting rogue IoT devices on a network. The non-profit research and development organization MITRE has challenged security researchers to propose new methods and technologies that could help in detecting rogue Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a network. The goal of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2016
Simone Margaritelli has done a reverse engineering of the Smarter Coffee IoT Machine Protocol to control the machine from his terminal. What is the lesson? While security industry is stressing the need to adopt a security by design approach for IoT devices, security researchers continue to find flawed and poorly designed smart objects. Clearly, such kind of devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2016
The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices. Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the […]
