Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Connected gadgets were used in a massive DDoS-attack – 99mac

If you tried to use popular services such as Netflix, Spotify and Twitter on Friday, you may have experienced them as hard to reach, if at all possible to use it to say. The attack was carried out by a group calling itself the New World of Hackers, the and the uniqueness of the attack was that a large amount of imperfect IoT gadgets used as tools.

the Attack struck against the company Dyn, which monitors and directs a large portion of internet traffic in the united states. Shortly after the company discovered a distributed denial of service attack, a so-called DDoS-attack, began a series of major services will be unavailable on the u.s. east coast. Within a short spread it over the rest of the united states with more and more inaccessible sites and services as a result.

What is most alarming about the attack is that it was conducted with hundreds of thousands of connected gadgets, the so-called internet of things (IoT) products. These included cameras, babymonitors and internetroutrar. All of the involved IoT gadgets had been infected with a software by the name Mirai, which made the attack possible, without their owner’s knowledge. Mirai is a software that is used in the botnet that can locate vulnerable IoT devices and infect them automatically.

internet service provider Level 3 Communications to illustrate how the botnet with the software Mirai can be used to attack the internet infrastructure.

the Attack spread to also focus on other companies in addition to the Dune which is responsible for internet traffic and infrastructure. The american authorities, the FBI and Homeland Security are investigating the incident as not only a criminal activity but also as a potential attack on the nation.

security research analysts have long warned that the increasing number of connected devices can be used as a powerful tool for ill-intentioned as these are rarely updated with security patches, either by the companies that manufacture them or the customers who use them.

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By targeting the companies that handle internet traffic and infrastructure, DDoS-attacks, compromise of principle, all the communication is happening the world over, not only to domestic communications or individual websites or services. These companies are the hosts for the Domain Name System (DNS), which can be likened to the internet’s switchboard. But it can’t different servers and clients around the world linked together.

Towards the end of Friday reported the Mire that tens of millions of IP addresses were used to bombard the company’s servers with data. Which nations are involved in the attack at the time of writing unknown. The group of the New World of computer Hackers has taken responsibility for the attack, and says in anonymous interviews to have access to a botnet with 100 000 connected IoT devices.

the Group claims to also perform a great “kraftuppvisning” per year, where a big attack on the british media group BBC accounted for last year’s display. Companies that manufacture connected gadgets have started to update and withdraw their products as a response to this event, but it remains to be seen how hackergrupper adapts and software as Mirai, in turn, be adapted to meet these measures.

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