A company that produces webcams used in last week's massive cyber attack is recalling the cameras.
Friday's attack saw some of the biggest players on the web - Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, Netflix and more - go down as the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a domain name system provider (DNS).
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai is recalling webcams in the US after the home cameras were identified as being soldiers in the assault, according to the BBC. The cameras still had their default passwords, the company confirmed, making them easy targets for hacking.
With the help of two other firms, Dyn confirmed the cyber attack was launched at least in part by Internet of Things devices that belong to a network of bots infected with a malware called Mirai.
Mirai, according to cyber crime and security expert Brian Krebs, targets vulnerable IoT devices that still have factory default or hard-coded usernames and passwords.
Once infected, the IoT devices can be used to send malicious traffic to their mark, in this case Dyn.
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