{"id":847,"date":"2016-09-29T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:46:09","slug":"150000-iot-devices-behind-the-1tbps-ddos-attack-on-ovh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/150000-iot-devices-behind-the-1tbps-ddos-attack-on-ovh\/","title":{"rendered":"150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first incident where <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/06\/cctv-camera-hacking.html\">large number of IoT devices<\/a> are being used to launch a DDoS attack. It&#8217;s a worrying sign that the number of compromised devices are getting larger and the technique is getting more popular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/securityaffairs.co\/wordpress\/51726\/cyber-crime\/ovh-hit-botnet-iot.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-Tbps-DDoS-attack.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/securityaffairs.co\/wordpress\/51726\/cyber-crime\/ovh-hit-botnet-iot.html\">150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first incident where large number of IoT devices are being used to launch a DDoS attack. It&#8217;s a worrying sign that the number of compromised devices are getting larger and the technique is getting more popular. The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}