Large CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/06/large-cctv-botnet-leveraged-ddos-attacks.html
It is not new that attackers have been using IoT devices to
start their DDoS campaigns, however, we have not analyzed one
that leveraged only CCTV devices and was still able to
generate this quantity of requests for so long. As we
extracted the geo-location from the IP addresses generating
the DDoS, we noticed that they were coming from all over the
world, different countries and networks. A total of 25,513
unique IP addresses came within a couple of hours. The source
of the attack concentrated in Taiwan, with 24% of the IP
address, followed by the USA with 12%, Indonesia with 9%,
Mexico with 8% and Malaysia with 6%.
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