The Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown - Bloomberg
... attacks coming from malware that targets the "Internet of Things," ... after a hacker released software code that powers such malware, called Mirai, several weeks ago.
...Earlier in the day, Brian Krebs, a well-known journalist covering computer security, wrote that the timing of the attacks corresponded with the release of research conducted by Dyn’s director of internet analysis. 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....
...it has a design flaw: Sending a routine data request to a DNS server from one computer, the hacker can trick the system into sending a monster file of IP addresses back to the intended target. Multiply that by tens of thousands of computers under the hackers’ control, and the wall of data that flooded back is enormous...
...the most recent DDoS attacks have been linked to Internet of Things devices, in particular web cams.
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