{"id":31338,"date":"2016-10-24T00:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:41","slug":"chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm admits its hacked products were behind Friday\u2019s massive DDOS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that security vulnerabilities involving weak default passwords in its products were partly to blame.<\/p>\n<p>According to security researchers, malware known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3134056\/hacking\/an-iot-botnet-is-partly-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack.html\">Mirai<\/a> has been taking advantage of these vulnerabilities by infecting the devices and using them to launch huge distributed denial-of service attacks, including Friday\u2019s outage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3134035\/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack.html\">http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3134035\/chinese-firm-adm...ttack.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that security vulnerabilities involving weak default passwords in its products were partly to blame. According to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65937,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions\/65937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}