Oct 25, 2016 | Malware and Exploits
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
May 10, 2017 | CyberSecurity, Malware and Exploits
Security blogs and news sites are reporting that a new Botnet has been discovered. Named Persirai the botnet has a target base of 1,000 different IP camera models. It was discovered by Trend Micro be finding four command and control server and tracking it backwards to...
Apr 27, 2017 | CyberSecurity
Security experts are keeping a close eye on the Hajime botnet, which is now estimated to have passed 300,000 infected IoT devices. By comparison, the Mirai botnet was estimated to be about 400,000 devices, when it was deployed in DDoS attack against Dyn back in 2016,...
Dec 23, 2016 | General Security
Welcome to our final day – #6 – of our Christmas CyberSecurity Tips. This time our tips are about DDoS Attacks and Password Security: DDoS attacks A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack can really take the fun out of things like online shopping and...
Nov 7, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
