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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

Krebs on Security

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. But on Thursday DDoS protection firm Qrator Labs identified the culprit — “Meris” — a new IoT monster that first emerged at the end of June 2021. In its Aug.

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DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

Krebs on Security

A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston , 22, of Macon, Ga., ” Preston declined to comment for this story.

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Unraveling the truth behind the DDoS attack from electric toothbrushes

Security Affairs

Several media reported that three million electric toothbrushes were compromised and recruited into a DDoS botnet. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung first published the news of a DDoS attack, carried out on January 30, that involved three million compromised electric toothbrushes. Is it true? What the f is wrong with you people????

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Updated Kmsdx botnet targets IoT devices

Security Affairs

Researchers spotted an updated version of the KmsdBot botnet that is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

IoT devices (routers, cameras, NAS boxes, and smart home components) multiply every year. The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. Telnet, the overwhelmingly popular unencrypted IoT text protocol, is the main target of brute-forcing.

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Kaiji, a new Linux malware targets IoT devices in the wild

Security Affairs

Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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