Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert) issued a warning of a spike in DDoS attacks abusing the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface in network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, and printers. The latest wave of attacks targets devices running an older version of SNMP, version 2, which by default is open to the public Internet unless that feature is disabled. The attacks are using a tool that’s available online and was developed by the infamous hacker group Team Poison.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/snmp-ddos-attacks-spike