Internet Attacks

On Friday October 21, 2016 there was a major attack on the internet through "'Internet of Things'" devices like CCTV video cameras and digital video recorders. Krebs claims that the attack on Friday was a test run for cyber criminals. These criminals have been "training their attack canons" on an internet infrastructure company Dyn. Dyn provides critical internet services to Internet's top sites like Twitter, Netflix, Amazon and Spotify. At first people did not know who was behind the attack on Friday but a computer security firm quickly identifies that Mirari was one of the groups responsible. Mirari previously attacked Krebs and it released a source code for its strain of malware so that anyone could build there own code off of it. Many of the devices that were used as gateways were from the hi-tech Xiongmai Technologies. Xiongmai has said that they will not make a global recall until it is told to do so.