The Friday of the last week, there was a hacking mass that affected several popular sites like Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb, and GitHub, among others.
This was due to a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) bulk to your domain manager, DYN, which meant that the useful data they could not be processed due to lack of resources.
And apparently, has already found a possible culprit: the collection of smart objects and is permanently connected that promise to make life easier, also known as the Internet of Things.
These include light bulbs, thermostats, security cameras and even video recorders. And unlike our computers and smartphones, our interaction with them is sporadic and limited to the function of the object.
The problem is that they are devices that are almost never updated and therefore do not receive security patches or that, when they are received, force the user to follow a series of complex steps to apply them. This means that vulnerabilities that are discovered in these products may remain during the entire life of the object in question.
The foregoing is of vital importance to understand the attack last week. Mirai is a malicious software that exploits a known vulnerability in security cameras, printers, and video recorders installed throughout the world, and has been responsible for recruiting millions of these objects to participate in the attack.
most of these devices were manufactured by the company XiongMai Technologies and to the attack were used to 60 user names and passwords for defects, which were obtained thanks to Mirai.
The main problem is that this situation is likely to happen again in the future, unless these devices are disconnected from the Internet.
What is almost a fact, is that the companies behind these devices will begin to take more seriously the security of these, forcing manufacturers to provide steps to update the software of the devices if they want to get support, although unfortunately it is a measure that comes too late for the generation of products, many of which are already in homes around the world.
By now it is unknown which nation or group was behind the attack, but it is believed that could come from nations such as Russia or China. For now, the Department of Homeland Security united States continues to investigate the hacking to learn more about how you carried out and give the or the responsible.
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