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October 23, 2015 06:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nmRzGlYEk7M/compromised-cctv-and-nas-devices-found-participating-in-ddos-attacks
Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating In DDoS Attacks
chicksdaddy writes: The parade of horribles continues on the Internet of Things, with a report from the security firm Incapsula that its researchers discovered compromised closed circuit cameras as well as home network attached storage (NAS) devices participating in denial of service attacks. The compromised machines included a CCTV at a local mall, just a couple minutes from the Incapsula headquarters. According to the report, Incapsula discovered the infections as part of an investigation into a distributed denial of service attack on what it described as a "rarely-used asset" at a "large cloud service." The attack used a network of 900 compromised cameras to create a flood of HTTP GET requests, at a rate of around 20,000 requests per second, to try to disable the cloud-based server. The cameras were running the same operating system: embedded Linux with BusyBox, which is a collection of Unix utilities designed for resource-constrained endpoints. The malware in question was a variant of a self-replicating program known as Lightaidra, which targets systems running BusyBox and exploits vulnerable Telnet/SSH services using so-called "brute force dictionary attacks" (aka "password guessing"). Given that many Internet connected devices simply use the default administrator credentials when deployed, calling it a "brute force" attack is probably a stretch.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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