It's still unclear who pulled off Friday's massive internet disruption, but the malware largely responsible for the cyber attack has since been found assaulting new targets -- possibly video gamers.
A Chinese electronics component maker is recalling 4.3 million internet-connected camera products from the U.S. market amid claims they may have played a role in Friday's massive internet disruption.
The source code for a trojan that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks was published online, paving the way for more such botnets.
The botnets made up of compromised IoT devices are now capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks of unprecedented scale.
Cybercriminals who hack one account have been trawling databases to see if they can use the same credentials to compromise other sites. This is not new, but a recent report by Akamai shows this practice is gaining increasing popularity in the criminal underworld.
Fragmentation attacks are dominating the security landscape in New Zealand and while attacks are relatively small in comparison to the rest of Asia-Pacific, they are still damaging.
DDoS attacks are continuing to evolve and the last 12 months has seen huge growth in the number and size of the attacks going on in New Zealand.
Kiwi organisations must adopt multi-layered DDoS protection solutions, using on-premise equipment coupled with cloud-based services.
