The Internet of Dangerous Things
Summary: Arbor Networks surveyed nearly 300 companies and found 38% saw more than 21 DDoS attacks per month, up from a quarter the year prior, with the largest reported attack at 400 Gbps and reflection/amplification techniques driving the biggest events. KrebsOnSecurity itself logged 26 distinct attacks in December 2014, and Akamai reported 4.1 million of the 11 million Internet-facing UPnP devices worldwide were potentially exploitable for reflection attacks, while the Open Resolver Project counted more than 28 million abusable devices.
What you should know: The attack surface is already installed: 4.1 million UPnP devices and over 28 million open resolvers sit online today, and the DDoS-for-hire service implicated in the Christmas Day 2014 takedown of PlayStation and Xbox networks was built from a few thousand hijacked home routers.
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