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Phishing in Troubled Waters: Confronting Cyber Espionage across the Pacific and the Strait of Taiwan
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SecurityBrief NZ Centrify has expanded its ANZ suite of mobile security offerings, and the company says both Windows and Apple-based devices can now get in on the fun. |
Our new IoT overlords have arrived. (credit: peyri)
The distributed denial of service attacks against dynamic domain name service provider Dyn this morning have now resurged. The attacks have caused outages at services across the Internet.
But this second wave of attacks appears to be affecting even more providers. According to Dan Drew, the chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, the attack is at least in part being mounted from a “botnet” of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
Drew explained the attack in a Periscope briefing this afternoon. “We’re seeing attacks coming from a number of different locations,” Drew said. “An Internet of Things botnet called Mirai that we identified is also involved in the attack.”
15 countries, 105 people, a pile of duty free shops, a stack of cloned cards…and €5 million in glitzy goods
Naked Security – Sophos