Experts on cyber security recorded a powerful wave of Ddos attacks, which swept across the world. So, according to Ddos-Guard, the new botnet IOtroop / REAPER will use 4.5 million infected devices in more than 200 countries. Including, and Ukrainian. The strongest attacks were made by the United States, Britain and Canada.

The appearance of the new threat was awaited by experts earlier this year, but despite the warnings, IoT manufacturers did not eliminate the backdoors (security bugs), which led to a new wave of massive attacks of huge volume that began in mid-October and are still raging. Although the peak occurred at the end of October, the bot has not gone anywhere.

Attacks are carried out on the principle of Pulse Wave, when the power then falls, it increases with the same frequency and systematic increase in power. Hackers alternately used bots from different countries. The volumes of garbage traffic at the peak reach 160 Gbps / 150 Mpps. Bots generated an HTTP flood at L7.

As told in Ddos-Guard, the botnet supposedly consists of routers and IP-cameras and attacks victims from all over the world. But who is responsible for the new wave of DoT (DdoS through IoT) is not yet known - the authors do not rush to advertise themselves on the Internet.