Cameras, DVRs Used for Massive Cyberattack on French Hosting Company and Others

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Cameras, DVRs Used for Massive Cyberattack on French Hosting Company and Others

By CircleID Reporter
September 30, 2016, 4:47 pm PDT Views: 4,918 Add Comment

“Hackers infect army of cameras, DVRs for massive internet attacks,” reports Drew Fitzgerald in the Wall Street Journal: “The assaults raised eyebrows among security experts both for their size and for the machines that made them happen. The attackers used as many as one million Chinese-made security cameras, digital video recorders and other infected devices to generate webpage requests and data that knocked their targets offline, security experts said. It is unclear whether the attackers had access to video feeds from the devices.”

— “If you thought that the massive DDoS attack earlier this month on Brian Krebs’ security blog was record-breaking, take a look at what just happened to France-based hosting provider OVH,” says Brandon Hill in HotHardware: “OVH was the victim of a wide-scale DDoS attack that was carried via network of over 152,000 IoT devices. According to OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba, the DDoS attack reached nearly 1 Tbps at its peak…. Many of these types devices’ network settings are improperly configured, which leaves them ripe for the picking for hackers that would love to use them to carry our destructive attacks.”

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