DDoS Attackers Exploited Insecure IoT Gadgets from Xiongmai

A Chinese electronics manufacturer admitted that its products inadvertently contributed to last week’s massive cyberattack that knocked popular Web services offline. On Friday, a number of major sites—Twitter, Etsy, GitHub, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopify—experienced outages as the result of a DDoS attack on DNS provider Dyn. One big part of the problem: the Mirai botnet, which […]