Massive cyberattack the result of malware-infected IoT devices

The widespread internet outage that affected a number of the US’s biggest websites on Friday was the result of a huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a domain name registration provider. Now security expert Brian Krebs, of Krebs on Security, has reported that the attack was carried out through the use of a botnet using the Mirai … Continue reading