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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

| | A Little Sunshine, Akamai, Cambridge University, CloudFlare, ddos, google, Meris, MikroTik, Project Shield, Qrator, Richard Clayton, The Coming Storm, Yandex
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from "Meris," the same new "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet behind ...
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Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K

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

| | Akamai, ddos, DDoS-for-hire, google, Internet of things, iot, Mirai, Project Shield
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 ...
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