Saturday, May 16, 2015

Mystery botnet hijacks broadband routers to offer DDoS-for-hire | Security | Techworld

Mystery botnet hijacks broadband routers to offer DDoS-for-hire | Security | Techworld: Almost all of the compromised routers appear to be unidentified ARM-based models from a single US vendor, Ubiquiti, which is sold across the world, including in the UK. Incapsula detected traffic from compromised devices in 109 countries, overwhelmingly in Thailand and router compromise hotspot, Brazil.