A chinese company admits that its products hacked are the ones that were used in the DDoS attack – Gizmodo in Spanish

Hangzhou Xiongma ies a small Chinese company dedicated to the manufacturing of DVD players connected and IP cameras. The signature just admit that it has played a role in unintended, but instrumental in the massive attack that struck the Internet last Friday, the 21st.

Responsible Hangzhou Xiongmai have recognized that the malware known as Mirai took advantage of the connection of their devices to launch the denial of service attack that they threw down the servers of the DNS provider Dyn. Apparently, the authors of the attack were using the low security of the default passwords of the devices to gain control of their connections.

According to Level3 Communications, there were more than half a million devices IoT hacked. The provider victim of the attack, Dyn, registered at least 10 million of the IP addresses associated with the attack.

From the company have commented that malware attacks as Mirai are a disaster for the Internet of Things. The company has released several Firmware updates that ask the user to change the default password to prevent the device to continue being used in this way.

The attack could be repeated perfectly. At the beginning of October, the developer anonymous who created Mirai released his code on the Internet, and security researchers have already discovered a number of attempts to replicate the attack. [via PCWorld]