Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology admits its products inadvertently played a role in the massive cyber attack against DynDNS on Friday. Hackers are now selling access to a huge army of hacked IoT devices designed to launch attacks that are capable of severely disrupting any web service. The company has advised its customers to update their product’s firmware and change their default credentials to prevent future attacks. The Mirai malware can easily be removed from infected devices by rebooting them, but the devices will end up infecting again in a matter of minutes if owners and manufacturers do not take proper measures to protect them.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/iot-camera-mirai-ddos.html