Last Friday’s massive DDoS that exploited online cameras and DVRs was simple to pull off — and a new chapter in online attacks.
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last Friday via an army of infected webcams, DVRs, and other systems, that crippled a large chunk of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) served as a wake-up call after years of research and warning about vulnerable consumer and embedded devices.
It also led to a rare mea culpa by a consumer networked-device manufacturer: Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co Ltd, the Chinese maker of electronics for some of the surveillance cameras hijacked by the so-called Mirai botnet used in the attack against DNS provider Dyn, reportedly said it will recall some of its affected products. The firm plans to ratchet up authentication as well as patch devices manufactured prior to April 2015, according to a Reuters report