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Millions of IoT devices have already been compromised and abused for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and millions more are affected by critical vulnerabilities that make them an easy target for malicious actors.
While in many cases attackers hack IoT devices and leverage them to conduct attacks directly, researchers at Akamai have come across a different type of mass attack in which the compromised systems are used as proxies that route malicious traffic.
These attacks, dubbed by Akamai SSHowDowN Proxy attacks, have abused vulnerable CCTV, NVR, DVR, networking, storage and satellite antenna equipment to conduct HTTP-based credential stuffing campaigns. The breached devices are also used as an entry point to the internal networks that house them.
Read more at SecurityWeek.com
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 14 2016, @08:33PM
It seems to me that the real issue is the very existence of a default administrator.
If there has to be a default, make it unique, with a printed sticker on the device. Yeah, I know, that has to be integrated into the assembly process.
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