Poorly secured devices may have been compromised and turned into a “botnet” that powered the attack, he wrote. While DDoS attacks don’t steal anything, they create havoc across the Internet—and are on the increase in volume and power. Dyn highlighted potential connections between firms that offer to protect against DDoS attacks, and the hackers who conduct them. Krebs’s own website faced an “extremely large and unusual” DDoS attack after he published a story based on the same research, he said. “This is exactly what happens when tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of devices are left unprotected,” Palmer said.

Source: Mint October 23, 2016 09:45 UTC