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Inside Mirai the infamous IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis

Elie

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. At its peak, Mirai enslaved over 600,000 vulnerable IoT devices, according to our measurements. self-propagating worm.

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DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

SecureList

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers.

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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. DNS BIND information disclosure attempts were also commonly encountered. In the Credential Access tactic, credential dumping attacks appear to be targeting routers and IoT devices such as CCTV cameras.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Particularly in IoT, where we find ourselves using MQTT and other ancient protocols, not for what they were originally designed for, but for our immediate need for lightweight communications among devices. Then in 2014, the Linux foundation embarked on a process to fuzz open source. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Particularly in IoT, where we find ourselves using MMQT and other ancient protocols, not for what they were originally designed for, but for our immediate need for lightweight communications among devices. Then in 2014, the Linux foundation embarked on a process to fuzz open source. It seems at times that not much has happened after that.