China’s Xiongmai Technology will recall up to 10,000 webcams in the wake of massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. The DDoS attacks targeted domain name server provider Dyn on Oct. 21, resulting in widespread website disruptions. Security researchers say the attacks were driven, at least in part, by Mirai malware, which targets default and hardcoded credentials in dozens of types of IoT devices. The company says it has fixed the firmware used in components that it supplied to manufacturers this year and last. It’s not clear who launched the attacks against Dyn, how many botnets might have been used.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/mirai-aftermath-chinas-xiongmai-details-webcam-recall-a-9484