Cybercriminals are leveraging the multitudes of vulnerable connected devices with botnets that launch dangerous distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet s FortiGuard Labs, talks to Threatpost host Cody Hackett about swarm attacks and the proliferation of several new IoT Peer-to-Peer (P2P) botnets. In the future, Manky said that companies can expect a new security challenge: cybercriminals targeting edge computing devices.
Source: https://threatpost.com/botnet-attackers-turn-to-vulnerable-iot-devices/161210/