Mirai

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2016
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 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
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. 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
SSHowDowN Proxy attacks – A 12-Year-Old SSH bug exposes more than 2M IoT Devices

Akamai Technologies revealed that hackers are exploiting a 12-year-old bug in OpenSSH to hack into millions of IoT devices with SSHowDowN Proxy attacks. IoT devices are a privileged target for hackers, design flaws and wrong configurations open to the attackers. Recently we read about massive DDoS attacks powered by huge botnets powered by hundreds of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2016
The source code of the Mirai IoT botnet leaked online. Do you trust it?

A hacker released the source code of the Mirai malware that powered the record-breaking DDoS attack against the Brian Krebs Website, but … A couple of weeks ago the unknown hackers launched a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the website of the popular cyber security investigator Brian Krebs. Further investigation revealed the involvement of […]