The massive DDoS attacks that hit OVH and Brian Krebs are likely to escalate after hackers publicly released the Mirai source code, which can turn poorly secured web devices into a zombie army on the attack.
In recent weeks, prominent infosec journalist Brian Krebs succumbed to what was then the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) in history, with a 620Gbps DDoS attack. Within a week, this record was broken by an even bigger attack on French hosting player OVH that ran at 1.5Tbps, as 145,000 poorly secured webcams and CCTV cameras were enlisted to join the onslaught.
Now the fear is that any home or business with internet of things (IoT) devices ranging from robot vacuums to child monitors could be enlisted to join attacks, after a hacker by the name ‘Anna-senpai’ released the code to the public.
The malware, known simply as ‘Mirai’, can effectively raise a zombie army of poorly secured IoT devices and direct a major DDoS attack against any business or individual. For the full article click here
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