The Hacked Camera Botnet: Not New, Just Big

The article reports that a Mirai-family botnet made up largely of compromised Internet-connected CCTV cameras and DVRs—estimated in the tens to hundreds of thousands of devices—was used to carry out record-shattering DDoS attacks against KrebsOnSecurity and OVH. Attackers exploited a firmware/web-interface buffer-overflow vulnerability and default administrator credentials to install malware, enabling large-scale DDoS and extortion campaigns and highlighting widespread insecure IoT deployments.