Dyn a company that provides dynamic domain name resolution (convert names into IP addresses) was threatened to shell out some bitcoin or else…
Or else what? I’d like to call it an availability compromise, but in layman’s terms, an outage of service. Here is their support link on the incident. Because the service provider provides service to other well known services (reddit, spotify, twitter, etc), they were down as well.
Brian Krebs writes:
The size of these DDoS attacks has increased so much lately thanks largely to the broad availability of tools for compromising and leveraging the collective firepower of so-called Internet of Things devices — poorly secured Internet-based security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet routers.
Which adds to my article https://www.carmelowalsh.com/2016/10/largest-distributed-denial-service-ever-robot-knock-knock-description/
