Internet of Things

Hackers offer a huge Mirai botnet as a DDoS-for-hire service

The hackers Popopret and BestBuy are offering a DDoS-for-hire service leveraging a Mirai botnet composed of around 400,000 compromised devices. We have…

9 years ago

How to Exploit Belkin WEMO gear to hack Android devices

Belkin’s WeMo home automation firmware that’s in use in several IoT devices has recently been found vulnerable to an SQL…

9 years ago

Shadows Kill Mirai Botnet caused an Internet outage in Liberia, what is the next one?

Mirai botnet was used to power a massive DDoS attack against Liberia causing the Internet outage in the entire country…

9 years ago

Hacking back the Mirai botnet, technical and legal issues

Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in the source code of the Mirai botnet and devised a method to hack back…

9 years ago

24 hours in the life of my home router by Francisco J. Rodriguez

Recently a massive DDoS attack has disconnected a large portion of users from the Internet, hackers exploited IoT devices. Is your…

9 years ago

Hackers offered an loT botnet for $7,500. The recent attack may be just a test

The security firm RSA revealed to have discovered in early October, hackers advertising access to a huge IoT botnet on…

9 years ago

Massive DDoS attack against Dyn DNS service, how and why

A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the…

9 years ago

The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products

Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks.…

9 years ago

Exclusive – ELF Linux/NyaDrop, a new IoT threat in the wild

Exclusive: interview made by @unixfreaxjp of MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs about the Linux/NyaDrop. The latest details about this new dangerous…

9 years ago

MITRE will award $50,000 for a solution that detects rogue IoT Devices

MITRE has challenged the security community to devise new methods that could help in detecting rogue IoT devices on a…

9 years ago

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