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Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

May 7, 2018 admin Akamai, ddos, ddos-for-hire, google, IdioT, Internet of Things, IoT, Kim Fong, Kurt Hepler, Mirai, NETSCOUT Arbor, Peter Rowland, Project Shield, Rohit Raghavan, UC Berkeley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 16:47:20 +0000

A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders. A new study that tries to measure the direct cost of that one attack for IoT device users whose machines were swept up in the assault found that it may have cost device owners a total of $323,973.75 in excess power and added bandwidth consumption. My bad.

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Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

December 13, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Akamai, anna-senpai, bitcoin, Breadcrumbs, click fraud, Dalton Norman, Daniel Kaye, exfocus, google, IoT botnet, Josiah White, justice department, Minecraft, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, OVH, Paras Jha, Project Shield, Rutgers University DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).

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Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?

October 23, 2017 admin Akamai, AVTECH, Checkpoint, D-Link, Depth Security, Doug Madory, Dyn, Foscam, GoAhead, google, IoTroop, Jake Reynolds, Linksys, Mirai, Netgear, Netlab 360, Other, OVH attack, Project Shield, Qbot, Reaper, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:42:42 +0000

It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by “Mirai,” a zombie malware strain that enslaved “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale online attacks. Now, experts are sounding the alarm about the emergence of what appears to be a far more powerful strain of IoT attack malware — variously named “Reaper” and “IoTroop” — that spreads via security holes in IoT software and hardware. And there are indications that over a million organizations may be affected already. Reaper isn’t attacking anyone yet. For the moment it is apparently content to gather gloom to itself from the darkest reaches of the Internet. But if history is any teacher, we are likely enjoying a period of false calm before another humbling IoT attack wave breaks.

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How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity

February 3, 2017 admin anna-senpai, Ars Technica, Damian Menscher, Dan Goodin, ddos, denial-of-service attacks, google, IoT, Mirai worm, Other, Project Shield

The third week of September 2016 was a dark and stormy one for KrebsOnSecurity. Wave after wave of huge denial-of-service attacks flooded this site, forcing me to pull the plug on it until I could secure protection from further assault. The site resurfaced three days later under the aegis of Google’s Project Shield, an initiative which seeks to protect journalists and news sites from being censored by these crippling digital sieges. Damian Menscher, a Google security engineer with whom I worked very closely on the migration to Project Shield, spoke publicly for the first time this week about the unique challenges involved in protecting a small site like this one from very large, sustained and constantly morphing attacks.