Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices

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Subject: Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices
Date: September 25, 2016 at 2:44:00 PM EDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, Peter Neumann Neumann <neumann () csl sri com>, Dave Farber <dave () 
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http://www.networkworld.com/article/3123672/security/largest-ddos-attack-ever-delivered-by-botnet-of-hijacked-iot-devices.html
 
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Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices
Attack proved too draining for Akamai to keep fighting it

Securing the internet of things should become a major priority now that an army of compromised devices – perhaps 1 
million strong - has swamped one of the industry’s top distributed denial-of-service protection services.

A giant botnet made up of hijacked internet-connected things like cameras, lightbulbs, and thermostats has launched the 
largest DDoS attack ever against a top security blogger, an attack so big Akamai had to cancel his account because 
defending it ate up too many resources.

It wasn’t that Akamai couldn’t mitigate the attack – it did so for three days – but doing so became too costly, so the 
company made a business decision to cut the affected customer loose, says Andy Ellis the company’s chief security 
officer.

The delivery network has dropped protection for the Krebs on Security blog written by Brian Krebs after an attack 
delivering 665Gbps of traffic overwhelmed his site Tuesday. The size of the attack was nearly double that of any Akamai 
had seen before.

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