The attack on the infrastructure of this Friday is the first of great magnitude in the use of internet-connected objects infected. Web cameras, video surveillance systems engaged, televisions and other objects were part of this offensive that marked the Internet.
The world experienced a series of cyber attacks unprecedented that it affected the access to services of Internet giants such as Twitter, Spotify or Amazon, and media such as The New York Times or the Financial Times. These offensives had as a target the servers of the american company Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc.), a provider of Domain Name System (DNS) which allows users to access popular Internet services. Netflix, Paypal and the PlayStation network were also affected.
The first investigations on this attack marked a precedent in the world of cybersecurity: is the first of a great magnitude that it was orchestrated by using objects connected to the Internet infected. Web cameras, video surveillance systems engaged, televisions and other objects were part of this offensive that marked the Internet.
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"The attack began on the East Coast of the united States, but it began to shift and found that the problems were due to a denial of service attack (DDos) that were launched through a botnet called Mirai that is built on the IoT, devices the internet of things as cameras that are always hanging without any protection and once committed will always be committed," he explained to The Economist the Director of the Computer Research and Analysis of Kaspersky Lab for Latin America, Dmitry Bestuzhev.
In a DDoS attack, the computer systems affected form a kind of network zombie (botnet) sending access requests to web sites without the authorization or knowledge of the user to cause it to collapse. We have reports even of that of the messaging system WhatsApp also presents impacts that may arise as a result of this attack.
The research point to what has been stated by the researcher of Kaspersky. The security firm Flashpoint he also concurred that the attack came from Internet-connected objects infected, while the cyber security expert Brian Krebs wrote in his blog: "I’ve heard from a reliable source who has been following this activity and saw a talk on underground cybercrime that they were discussing a plan to attack Dyn".
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The investigator also notes a novelty in this attack. While traditionally the target was a company or a person, now the impact was directly to the operation of the Internet.
The effects of the attack will come to light as time goes by, it is difficult to quantify an economic impact in these times. So soon, ruled that the personal information of internet users have been compromised, although it recommended the use of virtual private networks (VPN) to circumvent the effects of this type of attack.
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Bestuzhev estimated that around 100,000 objects connected committed participated in the attack on, located in countries such as the united States, Canada, Russia, or India. Even Kaspersky has been found that objects zombie in Mexico participated in the attack, although in Latin America, most have been tracked in Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.
"The problem is serious because these devices are there committed, will be committed unless someone destroys it or the patch. It was the result of a attack apparently very simple but had the large effects that we perceive today," he said. The expert stressed that the botnet Mirai already has around half a million of devices are involved.
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Although Dyn is based in New Hampshire, said to CNBC that he had been attacked by "tens of millions of IP addresses". the Economist sought via e-mail to the firm that was the target of the ciberatacantes, but so far has not received a response.
The series of attacks this Friday, affected services of digital communication and social networks, information, and entertainment, in their vast majority. But this does not diminish the potential damage that this may cause.
The expert of Kaspersky argues that in the scenario of a similar attack during electoral processes or natural disaster, the smaller of the impacts would be to the dissatisfaction of the users. In addition, a DDoS attack more complex is able to redirect users to fake sites of banks to perpetuate fraud, or affect the operation of the critical infrastructure of the cities.
The magnitude of the attack has led to that u.s. agencies such as the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security will research.
A world zombie
for several years, experts have warned of the risks to the security and privacy with the rapid expansion of Internet-connected objects that do not have protective measures to avoid being violated and affect users.
it Is estimated that by 2020 there will be around the world about 50,000 million things connected to the Internet.
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In an interview in 2014, Mikko Hypponen, Research director of the security firm F-Secure, already warned to The Economist (http://eleconomista.com.mx/tecnociencia/2014/06/26/poder-computo-nuevo-o…) the new goal of the ciberatacantes to take sneak of the computing power that house the technology systems of objects connected to the network to conduct campaigns to attack or even minar criptomonedas as Bitcoins. The company Symantec has also warned about the risks in cyber security are increasing as it grows, the active devices in the IoT.
At this point, it is still difficult to recognize the motivations of the attacks that occurred this Friday; we only know that they all originated in Eastern Europe, ” says Bestuzhev. What is certain is that this could have been just a sample of the power of the attackers.
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"The attackers will continue to use and even more by acquiring more processing power, launching attacks with a greater number of devices involved. You can see that the attacks will be stronger but without a doubt the future attacks will also have the same effect of a partial stoppage of the operation of the internet," warned the expert of Kaspersky.
julio.sanchez@eleconomista.mx
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