DDoS attacks continue to target IoT networks

The second quarter of this year has seen DDoS attacks continue to target IoT networks according to attack protection specialist Nexusguard. Nexusguard gathers DDoS attack data through botnet scanning, honeypots, ISPs and traffic moving between attackers and their targets, so the data is unbiased by any single set of customers or industries. It finds that UDP-based (user datagram protocol) attacks increased by 15 percent in the second quarter, targeting hijacked devices connected to the Internet of Things, and overtaking SYN, HTTP Flood and other popular volumetric attacks in popularity. A new botnet, Persirai, attacked more than 1,000 different models of IP… [Continue Reading]