Elmo says X is under a massive cyber attack

[CaptainTruth]

45. Wonder if it's the webcam botnet, Eleven11bot?

From Bleeping Computer:
New Eleven11bot botnet infects 86,000 devices for DDoS attacks

A new botnet malware named 'Eleven11bot' has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks.

The botnet, which is loosely linked to Iran, has already launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting telecommunication service providers and online gaming servers.

Nokia's security researcher, Jérôme Meyer, commented that Eleven11bot is one of the largest DDoS botnets they have observed in recent years.

"Primarily composed of compromised webcams and Network Video Recorders (NVRs), this botnet has rapidly grown to exceed 30,000 devices," stated Meyer on LinkedIn.

"Its size is exceptional among non-state actor botnets, making it one of the largest known DDoS botnet campaigns observed since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022."

Earlier today, threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation reported seeing 86,400 devices infected by the Eleven11bot botnet, with most in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, and Australia.

Meyer says the botnet's attacks have reached several hundred million packets per second in volume, and their duration often spans multiple days.

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All those security cameras everywhere? Hackers figured out how to do this with them, at least the ones that use a specific (common) chipset. Most aren't behind a firewall, they just have an IP address. Some massive attacks, terabytes of data per second, have been observed.

It's a strange new world.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-eleven11bot-botnet-infects-86-000-devices-for-ddos-attacks/